Blown away by the ingenious use of music in the award-winning cartoon Bluey, Andrew Luboski talks to lead composer Joff Bush and hopes that the show might trigger a renaissance in musical education in Australia.

An image from Bluey. Photo © Ludo Studio

It is one measure of the success of the children’s TV cartoon Bluey that I was recently reproached by some fellow parents at a two-year-old’s birthday party in suburban Connecticut in the US for not having watched the show with my kids.

I grew up binge-watching The Simpsons. To this day, my friends and I still send each other the occasional Simpsons reference via text, and many quotes from the cartoon have entered the vernacular...