| The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Ian McFarlane |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Australian rock music history |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Publication date | December 1999 |
| Pages | 717 |
| ISBN | 1-86508-072-1 |
| OCLC Number | 59566131 |
| Dewey Decimal | 781.66/0994/03 21 |
| LC Classification | ML102.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 encyclopedia was described in Australian Music Guide as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards".[3]
The encyclopedia 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.
Publishers, Allen & Unwin describe McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and is 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]
United States Barnes & Noble reviewer, David Turkalo, found that although it was written solidly and had "a surprising number of Australian-American connections", it was too specialised for general American library patrons.[5]
The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop.[6]