Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
AuthorIan McFarlane
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAustralian rock music history
PublisherAllen & Unwin
Publication date
December 1999
Publication placeAustralia
Pages717
ISBN1-86508-072-1
OCLC59566131
781.66/0994/03 21
LC ClassML102.R6 M38 1999

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.[1][2] The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop,[3] but is not otherwise related.

Publishers, Allen & Unwin described McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and an "essential reference to the bands and artists who molded the shape of Australian popular music [...] in an A-to-Z encyclopedia format complete with biographical and historical details. Each entry also includes listings of original band lineups and subsequent changes, record releases, career highlights, and cross-references with related bands and artists."[4]

The first edition is out of print, but was for a time available on the whammo.com.au online record store, and is still in the Internet Archive. In 2017 a second edition was published by Third Stone Press.[5]

  1. ^ "McFarlane, Ian, 1959–". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  2. ^ "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop". Allen & Unwin. December 1999. Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  3. ^ Noel McGrath's Australian encyclopaedia of rock & pop / Noel McGrath. National Library of Australia. 1984. ISBN 0-7270-1909-0. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
  4. ^ "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, Ian McFarlane, Book". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
  5. ^ McFarlane, Ian; Jenkins, Jeff (2017). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (2nd ed.). Gisborne, VIC: Third Stone Press. ISBN 978-0-9953856-0-3.