Entries have opened for UNSW’s inaugural Jonathan Blakeman National Composition Prize to encourage and reward music composition at the highest national standard.
An internationally renowned anthropologist of sound, Steven Feld, is at UNSW for a series of public events looking at the way music is used to understand the environment.
It's enough to leave most music lovers All Shook Up: Elvis Presley's music is derivative and lacking in substance, according to UNSW academic Professor Robert Walker.