KATIE NOONAN is an Australian singer and songwriter, a five- time ARIA award-winning artist. She has produced 21 studio albums
On Q & A on 9th June she explains her life as an artist:
Discourse features/personal recounts: “music has been my best friend since I was two, and I was lucky enough to grow up in a family that appreciated music and the importance of it in everyday life.”
Use of strine/reductions: “My dad’s a journo – former ABC journo – my mum’s an opera singer, so I grew up in a house that valued these things.”
Use of jargon and a range of sentence types and structures/discourse features to reinforce her social purpose: “Only 25% of state schools have a qualified music teacher. Every single school has a PE teacher, I’m guessing. I would guess. So we have these two cultures that are integral to making a well-rounded human. And there is a plethora of research that says that music education and arts education increases numeracy, literacy – all of the things. So we know all this but we’ve just never had the policy to implement it in Australia.”
And it is so depressing for me that 75% of state-school-educated kids don’t have music to help them through their lives.
Discourse /conversational markers and fillers and non-fluency features: “If I didn’t have music as a teenager, I’m not sure if I’d still be here. Like, honestly. Like, it actually has helped me so much and I’ve… Music has helped, so that’s sort of… My pet dream is that we do finally have some cultural advocacy at a national level that prioritises quality music education.”
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