Editing Clinton Walker (section)

===Books===
Walker published his first book, ''Inner City Sound'', in 1981.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/innercitysound00walk/page/n163/mode/2up | isbn=978-0-909331-48-1 | title=Inner city sound | date=1982 }}</ref> It documented the emergence of independent Australian punk/post-punk music and quickly fell out of print but was re-released in 2005 in an expanded, updated edition,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.versechorus.com/inner-city-sound | title=Inner City Sound }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=secondary source needed rather than link to product page|date=December 2024}} along with an accompanying CD anthology.<ref>https://www.laughingoutlaw.com.au/product/inner-city-sound/</ref>{{better source needed|reason=secondary source needed rather than link to product page|date=December 2024}}

In 1984, after a couple of years in London, Walker returned to Australia and published his second book, ''The Next Thing''.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

Walker's third book, ''Highway to Hell'', was a biography of [[Bon Scott]] (1994).{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

Walker then published [[Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991|''Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977-1991'']] (1996) and ''Football Life'' (1998). ''Stranded'' was republished in 2021 by the Visible Spectrum in a new updated global edition.<ref name="rhythms.com.au">{{cite web | url=https://rhythms.com.au/clinton-walkers-stranded-gets-reboot/ | title=Clinton Walker's Stranded Gets Reboot | date=3 February 2021 }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=This is an unsigned article that appears to be based on a press release or advertisement|date=December 2024}} Des Cowley in his review in ''[[Rhythms Magazine]]'' said: "Reading ''Stranded'' today with a quarter-century’s hindsight, it’s easy to see that Walker mostly got things right. And if he stumbled now and again, it’s still the case he was streaks ahead of the pack."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://issuu.com/rhythms10/docs/rhythms_magazine_-_july_august_2021 | title=RHYTHMS MAGAZINE - JULY-AUGUST 2021 by rhythmsmag - Issuu | date=4 July 2021 }}</ref> ''Football Life'' was similarly a personal history but covered minor-league [[Australian rules football|Australian Rules]] culture.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

Walker's sixth book, ''[[Buried Country]]'', a history of [[Aboriginal country music]], was published in 2000, along with an accompanying documentary film and CD soundtrack album. {{citation needed span|date=December 2024|reason=was not able to find support for these in the three citations, two of which appear to be dead links|Martin Jones wrote in ''Rhythms'', "Like many of Walker's projects, ''Buried Country'' was at least a decade ahead of its time". At a time when Aboriginal music was not established or accepted as a fixture on the broader Australian music scene, Walker's ''Buried Country'' was praised as a pioneering, detailed work of music [[historiography]].}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news000819_0441_1471 |title=News Store |publisher=Newsstore.fairfax.com.au |date=19 August 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5168 |title=Australian Public Intellectual [API&#93; Network |publisher=Api-network.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215050654/http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5168 |archive-date=15 December 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bobhowe.com/writer/buried.html |title=Howe-written...BURIED COUNTRY (2002)...Four Decades of Country Music Journalism |publisher=Bobhowe.com }}</ref> A new updated edition of the book was released in 2015 along with a rebooted version of the CD called ''Buried Country 1.5'', which received further critical praise.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rothwell |first1=Nicholas |title=Buried Country celebrates indigenous music's wayward dreamers |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/buried-country-celebrates-indigenous-musics-wayward-dreamers/news-story/03579a042ae0cdca0a9ad01fd9723c53 |work=[[The Australian]] |date=10 April 2015 |archive-url=http://www.clintonwalker.com.au/uploads/2/3/9/8/23988894/buried_country_celebrates_indigenous_music%E2%80%99s_wayward_dreamers_%7C_the_australian.pdf |archive-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Annette |title=Clinton Walker: Buried Country: The story of Aboriginal country music. |url=http://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2015/04/02/clinton-walker-buried-country-the-story-of-aboriginal-country-music-reviewed-by-annette-hughes/ |website=The Newtown Review of Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506175123/http://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2015/04/02/clinton-walker-buried-country-the-story-of-aboriginal-country-music-reviewed-by-annette-hughes/ |archive-date=6 May 2018 |date=2 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/may/1430402400/anwen-crawford/buried-country-clinton-walker|title='Buried Country' by Clinton Walker|date=1 May 2015|website=The Monthly}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/album-reviews-undiscovered-heart-of-our-own-country/news-story/a2be06f2419aa3edf2e256e545c8bfd9|title=Undiscovered heart of our own country|date=13 November 2015|website=NewsComAu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/no-longer-a-buried-country-the-blossoming-of-indigenous-music-20151207-glgxp3.html|title=No longer a buried country: the blossoming of Indigenous music|first=Tim|last=Byron|date=8 December 2015|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref> A live stageshow adaptation premiered in 2016 and toured for several years in the festival circuit.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://beat.com.au/buried-country/ | title=Buried Country | date=12 October 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/melbourne-festival-2016-buried-country-concert-unearths-canon-of-aboriginal-music-20161011-grzjm9.html | title=Melbourne Festival 2016: Buried Country concert unearths canon of Aboriginal music | date=11 October 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/review-buried-country-the-beginning-of-nature-and-baker-boy-darwin-festival-256261-2360438/ | title=Review: Buried Country, the Beginning of Nature & Baker Boy, Darwin Festival | date=11 August 2018 }}</ref> In 2018, Australian singer-songwriter [[Darren Hanlon]], in conjunction with Mississippi Records in the US, produced a vinyl iteration of the ''Buried Country'' compilation that included new tracks.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/05/even-on-the-streets-of-melbourne-country-music-was-the-soundtrack-to-my-soul | title=Even on the streets of Melbourne, country music was the soundtrack to my soul &#124; Jack Latimore | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=5 December 2018 }}</ref>

In 2005, Walker’s seventh book, ''Golden Miles: Sex, Speed and the Australian Muscle Car'', was published, expanding on an article he published in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' in 2002.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/highway-72-revisited-20021116-gdftpr.html | title=Highway '72 revisited | date=16 November 2002 }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=cited source is merely a link to the 2002 article, but does not mention the book at all|date=December 2024}} ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' praised the book's design and called Walker "our best chronicler of Australian grassroots culture".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-high-revving-romp-through-time-20050904-gdm065.html | title=A high-revving romp through time | date=4 September 2005 }}</ref> It was re-released in 2009 in an expanded and updated edition by Wakefield Press.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product/golden-miles/ | title=Golden Miles }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=secondary source needed rather than link to product page|date=December 2024}}

In 2012, Walker published ''History is Made at Night'' about the Australian live music circuit.<ref>{{cite web|author=Currency House Plus |url=http://vimeo.com/47135682 |title=Clinton Walker 'HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT' on Vimeo |publisher=[[Vimeo.com]] |date=7 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://iankeithrogers.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/history-is-made-at-night-the-importance-of-live-venues/#more-348 | title=History is Made at Night: The Importance of Live Venues | date=30 October 2012 }}</ref>  In 2013 he published his ninth book, ''The Wizard of Oz'', about the ill-starred Australian speed ace from the 1920s, [[Norman Leslie Smith|Norman 'Wizard' Smith]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product/wizard-of-oz/ | title=Wizard of Oz }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=secondary source needed rather than link to product page|date=December 2024}} as well as co-producing the CD ''Silver Roads'', an anthology of Australian country-rock from the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.noise11.com/news/warner-music-compiles-rare-australian-recordings-for-boogie-silver-roads-20130706 | title=Warner Music Compiles Rare Australian Recordings for Boogie Silver Roads | website=noise11.com | date=6 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bear-family.com/various-silver-roads-australian-country-rock-singer-songwriters-of-the-70-s-2-lp-180g-vinyl.html | title=Various LP: Silver Roads - Australian Country Rock & Singer Songwriters of the 70's (2-LP, 180g Vinyl) }}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=secondary source needed rather than link to product page|date=December 2024}}

''Deadly Woman Blues'', a graphic history of black women in Australian music, was released in 2018 by a division of [[academic]] publisher UNSW Press. Each of 99 biographical entries was accompanied by a hand-drawn illustration by Walker. The book immediately garnered a few glowing reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Capp |first=Fiona |date=2018-02-16 |title=Deadly Woman Blues review: Clinton Walker on Australia's black women singers |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/deadly-woman-blues-review-clinton-walker-on-australias-black-women-singers-20180216-h0w704.html |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mem: 35841056 |title=Deadly Woman Blues (Clinton Walker, NewSouth) {{!}} Books+Publishing |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/01/25/101032/deadly-woman-blues-clinton-walker-newsouth/ |access-date=2020-02-12 |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DWB CM feat |url=http://www.clintonwalker.com.au/dwb-cm-feat.html |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=Clinton Walker |language=en}}</ref> There was an angry backlash from four of the artists who expressed their displeasure at being included without being spoken to, and citing factual inaccuracies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 March 2018 |title=Book on black women musicians dumped after explosive claims author didn't interview artists |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/03/06/book-black-women-musicians-dumped-after-explosive-claims-author-didnt-interview |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=NITV |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=Michael Lallo, Karl |date=2018-03-06 |title=Deadly Woman Blues book to be pulped following backlash over 'distressing' errors |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/deadly-woman-blues-book-to-be-pulped-following-backlash-over-distressing-errors-20180306-h0x2gf.html |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Corn |first1=Aaron |last2=Langton |first2=Professor Marcia |title=What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco |url=http://theconversation.com/what-writers-and-publishers-must-learn-from-the-deadly-woman-blues-fiasco-92512 |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=The Conversation |date=7 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Book-burnings of our times. Clinton Walker's Deadly Woman Blues gets pulped ... – The Northern Myth |url=https://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2018/03/08/book-burnings-times-clinton-walkers-deadly-woman-blues-gets-pulped/ |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=blogs.crikey.com.au}}</ref>  This led to social media outrage in which Walker was criticized as a racist, [[misogynist]], [[colonialist]] privileged [[white male]]. The book was withdrawn from sale, with the publisher promising to pulp any unsold copies and never to reprint it.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Deadly Woman Blues |url=http://www.newsouthpublishing.com/articles/deadly-woman-blues/ |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=Clinton Walker |date=6 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Walker admitted to mistakes and apologised, saying "I didn't try to obscure what I was doing, I didn't take all the appropriate steps. I've been involved in [[underclass]] music forever, and in some ways, this is no different, but in other ways, it is very different".<ref name=":0" />

In 2021, Walker released two books, including a new edition of ''Stranded'' <ref name="rhythms.com.au"/> and a new work, ''Suburban Songbook''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rhythms.com.au/clinton-walkers-stranded-gets-reboot/|title = Clinton Walker's Stranded Gets Reboot|date = 3 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://musictrust.com.au/loudmouth/stranded-australian-independent-music-1976-1992-revised-expanded-edition-clinton-walker/|title = Stranded: Australian Independent Music 1976-1992, Revised & Expanded Edition. Clinton Walker &#124; Loud Mouth - the Music Trust Ezine|date = 29 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.i94bar.com/books/voice-of-the-exiles|title=Voice of the exiles}}</ref> ''Suburban Songbook: Writing Hits in post-war/pre-Countdown Australia'' is a critical history of the early evolution of rock/pop songwriting in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cityhubsydney.com.au/2021/12/the-naked-city-the-hits-and-misses-of-oz-music/|title=The Naked City: The Hits and Misses of Oz Music|date=30 November 2021}}.</ref>

Walker's twelfth book ''The Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever'' was published in 2023 as part of Bloomsbury's [[33⅓|33 1/3]] series of short books on albums.<ref>https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/soundtrack-from-saturday-night-fever-9798765109687/</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://333sound.com/33-1-3-author-qa-a-closer-look-at-the-soundtrack-from-saturday-night-fever/ | title=33 1/3 Author Q&A: Clinton Walker on the Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever | date=4 October 2024 }}</ref>