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Griffith University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Cultural Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Communication And Media Studies | Curatorial and Related Studies | Consumption and Everyday Life | Consumption And Everyday Life | Sociology Not Elsewhere Classified | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Cultural Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified | Pacific Cultural Studies | Performing Arts and Creative Writing | Sociology | Music | Musicology and Ethnomusicology | Urban Sociology And Community Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ethnicity and multiculturalism | The creative arts | The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance) | Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage | Understanding Australia's Past | Music | Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism | Heritage not elsewhere classified | Youth/child development and welfare | Arts and leisure not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
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Publications
Climate Change and UNESCO World Heritage-Listed Cultural Properties: A Systematic Review, 2008–2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-02-2023
Abstract: Underpinned by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 Statement, this systematic review analyses 58 peer-reviewed articles published during 2008–2021 and retrieved from Scopus and Google Scholar that address the relationship between climate change and UNESCO World Heritage-listed cultural properties. The review reveals a suite of observations that will be important to consider for future research, including: the significant increase in publications since 2008 the prevalence of scholarship focused on the region of Europe and North America the ersity of research methods and approaches the instances of climate change hazards the numerous adaptation measures and barriers. The study also showcases a much greater scholarly concentration on natural sites compared to cultural sites, observing that a reliance on a nature/culture binary does not bode well for the effective safeguarding of cultural World Heritage sites. This article also highlights the need for greater representation from the Global South in terms of both geographic focus and authorship, the lack of collaboration between Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) disciplines, the capacity for collective action from different stakeholders, the importance of intangible elements, and the effects of both international and national legal frameworks and regulations.
Sex, Gender and Work Segregation in the Cultural Industries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2015
Abstract: This chapter addresses work ‘segregation’ by sex in the cultural industries. We outline some of the main forms this takes, according to our observations: the high presence of women in marketing and public relations roles the high numbers of women in production co-ordination and similar roles the domination of men of more prestigious creative roles and the domination by men of technical jobs. We then turn to explanation: what gender dynamics drive such patterns of work segregation according to sex? Drawing on interviews, we claim that the following stereotypes or prevailing discourses, concerning the distinctive attributes of women and men, may influence such segregation: that women are more caring, supportive and nurturing that women are better communicators that women are ‘better organized’ and that men are more creative because they are less bound by rules.
Young People and Community Radio in the Northern Region of Adelaide, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Serious leisure and the DIY approach to heritage: considering the costs of career volunteering in community archives and museums
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2020
Understanding popular music heritage practice through the lens of ‘third place’
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-05-2019
A cultural justice approach to popular music heritage in deindustrialising cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2021
On Not Talking to Strangers: Researching the Micro Worlds of Girls through Visual Auto-ethnographic Practices
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 2003
Community Custodians of Popular Music’s Past
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-09-2017
Career volunteering as good work in do-it-yourself heritage institutions: A serious leisure perspective
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-03-2020
Abstract: In recent decades, the heritage sector has become increasingly precarious amid the rise of austerity neoliberalism, impacting both the efficacy of heritage institutions and the labour experiences of those who run them. While scholarly literature has regularly examined these impacts for mainstream heritage institutions, little work considers volunteer-run, do-it-yourself (DIY) community heritage organisations. This article takes a serious leisure perspective to explore what constitutes ‘good work’ for volunteers in a DIY heritage institution, the Australian Jazz Museum (AJM). Drawing on interviews with 26 AJM volunteers, we discuss some of the ‘rewards’ and ‘costs’ of career volunteering in this institution. Our research suggests that the conditions for good work are contingent on the efforts of volunteers in management roles, while the conditions for bad work are heightened by austerity policies affecting funding opportunities. The case study also highlights the need to consider the value of work beyond remuneration.
‘A very complicated version of freedom’: Conditions and experiences of creative labour in three cultural industries
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2010
Affective Archiving and Collective Collecting in Do-it-Yourself Popular Music Archives and Museums
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2015
Leveraging popular music heritage as sustainable cultural infrastructure in small cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-10-2023
New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-Being: A Critical Review
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-05-2019
Abstract: In the past decade, scholarship has documented the ways in which interacting with different forms of heritage impact in idual and/or community well-being, as well as the harm to human well-being that occurs when heritage is damaged or destroyed. We bring the results of a review of this literature together, defining both heritage and well-being in relation to each other and exploring the relationship between heritage and well-being. New and emerging threats to heritage and, in turn, well-being are outlined, as well as new ways of preserving heritage for future generations. The future of heritage is discussed along with the importance of the concept of “living heritage”. We conclude that heritage is essential for contemporary and future well-being, and that if we do not better care for heritage then human health will be negatively impacted.
Identifying Do-it-Yourself Places of Popular Music Preservation
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2015
Framing the field of popular music history and heritage studies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2018
Do-it-yourself institutions of popular music heritage: the preservation of music’s material past in community archives, museums and halls of fame
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-12-2015
Rap, Recidivism and the Creative Self: A Popular Music Programme for Young Offenders in Detention
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
The contradictions of the mainstream: Australian views of grunge and commercial success
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-02-2013
Preserving Icelandic Popular Music Heritage: Issues of Collection, Access and Representation
Publisher: Anthem Press
Date: 15-06-2019
“Masters of our own destiny”
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 02-12-2013
Affective Qualities of Creative Labour
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Date: 14-01-2019
Creative Work and Emotional Labour in the Television Industry
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2008
Abstract: In keeping with the focus of this special section, we concentrate initially on some of the problems of autonomist Marxist concepts such as `immaterial labour', `affective labour' and `precarity' for understanding work in the cultural industries. We then briefly review some relevant media theory (John Thompson's notion of mediated quasi-interaction) and some key recent sociological research on cultural labour (especially work by Andrew Ross and Laura Grindstaff, the latter drawing on Hochschild's concept of emotional labour), which we believe may be more useful than autonomist concepts in developing empirically informed critique. The main body of the article then consists of an ethnographic account of working on one particular television programme, an account that aims to build on these theoretical debates. We analyse how the power to provide exposure or not to in iduals in the talent show genre in contemporary television (a feature that derives from the symbolic power of producers to make texts that are then circulated to massive numbers of people) and disputes between commissioners and independent producers about how best to go about doing so (an organizational issue) are registered in the form of stress, anxiety and sometimes poor working relations among project teams of young television researchers (a matter of working conditions and experiences). We especially focus on how additional pressures are borne by these workers because of the requirements to undertake emotional labour, involving the handling of strong emotions on the part of talent show contributors, and to maintain good working relations in short-term project work, requirements generated by the need to ensure future employment. Ultimately, then, we support the view that creative work is `precarious' — but we go beyond the generalizations involved in concepts such as immaterial labour and affective labour to show the specific ways in which precariousness is registered and negotiated in the lives of young workers in one industry.
Where Are the Straight Edge Women?
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-02-2016
Pop in(to) the Bedroom
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2004
Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research with seven young girls in Adelaide, South Australia, this article examines the centrality of the bedroom in the girls’ exploration of popular music and cultural identity. In particular, it explores the popular music practices of two of these girls, nine-year-olds Kate and Rosa, in the space of their bedrooms. I argue that, by way of serious play, the girls enact and represent alternative possibilities in this immediate life space. The hard work in their musical play was not only observed in the process of fieldwork, but was also captured by the girls themselves using still cameras and tape recorders provided as part of the research project. The resulting materials from this ethnographic approach highlight that although girls’ bedrooms may seem rather ordinary, the musical practices that take place in this experiential space are complex, highly nuanced and far from trivial. As I demonstrate in this article, the girls’ play in their bedrooms is accompanied by an underlying seriousness, what Turner calls the ‘human seriousness of play’.
Curating popular music heritage: storytelling and narrative engagement in popular music museums and exhibitions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-03-2016
Preserving Popular Music Heritage
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-2015
Safeguarding Australia’s Community Heritage Sector: A Consideration of the Institutional Wellbeing of Volunteer-Managed Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Historical Societies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
9 Playing Online: Pre-Teen Girls’ Negotiations of Pop and Porn in Cyberspace Sarah Baker 171
Publisher: Peter Lang
A labour of love: the affective archives of popular music culture
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Editors' Introduction
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 29-06-2015
Historical records, national constructions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-07-2016
Locating the canon in Tamworth: historical narratives, cultural memory and Australia's ‘Country Music Capital’
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 05-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143013000081
Abstract: This article concerns the regional city of Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, a place that prides itself on its reputation as Australia's home of country music. We consider the ongoing memorialisation of country music in Tamworth, and how the processes associated with the project of articulating country music's past work to create and maintain something that can be recognised (and experienced) as a dominant narrative or an Australian country music ‘canon’. Outlining a number of instances in which the canon is produced and experienced (including in performances, rolls of honour and monuments built around the city), the article explores the ways in which this narrativisation of Australia's country music history contributes to a certain kind of memory of the genre's past.
Editorial Introduction to Issue 1.2
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 04-03-2015
The global countryside: peasant women negotiating, recalibrating and resisting rural change in Colombia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-08-2016
'Rock on, baby!': Pre-teen girls and popular music
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2001
Editor's Introduction
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 05-11-2015
The values and value of community heritage: visitor evaluation of do-it-yourself museums and archives of popular music in Europe, Australasia and the United States of America
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2022
Fast regeneration of activated carbons saturated with textile dyes: Textural, thermal and dielectric characterization
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Editors’ Introduction to Inaugural Issue
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 05-09-2014
DOI: 10.1558/JWPM.V1I1.5
Applying the value-creation framework to a community museum volunteer project: implementing a digital storytelling programme at the Mudgeeraba Light Horse Museum
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-12-2018
‘It’s not about Candy’
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2004
Abstract: This article explores the musical practices of a small group of pre-teen girls in an after school care centre in Adelaide, South Australia. These practices constituted ‘serious play’ as the girls attempted to transform and reconfigure the space through their engagement with popular music. The article illustrates how the girls challenged the power relations of the institutional setting both musically and sexually. It concludes that the music that the young girls listened to and the way they played with such music were ‘not about candy’. Rather, the girls’ musical engagement in after school care was related to constantly shifting fields of power and a struggle over western cultural beliefs regarding asexual childhood.
Cultural Precincts, Creative Spaces
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-07-2008
Abstract: This article examines the role of three community-based music projects—in Newcastle (Australia), Thanet (United Kingdom), and the City of Playford (Australia)—in engendering notions of regionalism, locality, and identity. Through their involvement in these projects, young people are placed at the intersection of music program management, city mythologies, and national policy. Each of the three projects examined attempts to facilitate urban regeneration through supplying their target community with what one regional arts development officer has coined a “musical spin.” However, within wider cultural frameworks, youth's lived experience is often at odds with grander ideals of community arts space. Thus, although the discourses of “creative” urban regeneration articulated by the facilitators of community-based music projects may appear credible at the level of cultural policy, their practical implementation is problematized by competing local narratives that are grounded in established local knowledges and often highly resistant to intervention by outside sources.
Popular music halls of fame as institutions of cultural heritage
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2018
Climate Change Impacts on UNESCO World Heritage-Listed Cultural Properties in the Asia–Pacific Region: A Systematic Review of State of Conservation Reports, 1979–2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-09-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU151914141
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-07-2020
Abstract: Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format use of mini-lectures face-to-face activities and our assessment model. We present analysis of students’ and instructors’ understandings and experiences of the redesign over three course iterations to offer insight into the unfolding and responsive dynamics involved in implementing blended and flipped models. We aim to contribute to the ongoing implementation of similar models in the context of changing institutional environments and expectations, as well as to broader projects for pedagogical enrichment in sociology.
Remembering Popular Music’s Past
Publisher: Anthem Press
Date: 15-06-2019
DOI: 10.2307/J.CTVJZ834Z
From Snuggling and Snogging to Sampling and Scratching
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-08-2007
Abstract: This article focuses on gendered youth music practices in community-based organizations (CBOs) in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Drawing on interviews and observational fieldwork from the Playing for Life research project, the authors highlight the absence of young women from many activities, especially in the area of hip hop (e.g., MCing, break dancing, DJing, and graffiti workshops). Attempts by CBOs to redress gender imbalances are observed, and evaluations are made of how successful these projects appear to be for female participants. Our subsequent findings question the reasoning and outcomes of projects that promote women-only sessions or specifically employ female facilitators to activate young women's interests in musical activities. The research shows multiple factors affect girls' involvement in such activities and that gender-specific projects can have positive (e.g., improving confidence, skills, and performance ability) and negative (e.g. lack of skill sharing, isolation from other young artists) consequences on music skills development.
Sustaining popular music’s material culture in community archives and museums
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-05-2015
DIY Heritage Institutions as Third Places: Caring, Community and Wellbeing Among Volunteers at the Australian Jazz Museum
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2022
Learning, loving and living at the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame
Publisher: Facet
Popular music heritage, community archives and the challenge of sustainability
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-03-2016
Abstract: This article identifies the challenges community archives of popular music face in achieving medium- to long-term sustainability. The artefacts and vernacular knowledge to be found in community archives, both physical and online, are at risk of being lost ‘to the tip’ and, consequently, to ‘cultural memory’, due to a lack of resources and technological change. The authors offer case studies of the British Archive of Country Music, a physical archive, and an online Facebook group Upstairs at the Mermaid, to exemplify how and why such groups must strategize their practices in order to remain sustainable. By including both online and physical community archiving in the scope of this research, the authors find that despite key differences in practice, both archival communities face similar threats of closure. The article concludes with an overview of the general outlook for community archives, and possible solutions to this ongoing issue of sustainable practices and processes for this sector.
The sound of music heritage: curating popular music in music museums and exhibitions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2015
Notes towards a typology of the DIY institution: Identifying do-it-yourself places of popular music preservation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-07-2013
Abstract: This article presents some notes towards identifying what we have come to call ‘DIY institutions’: places of popular music preservation, archiving and display that exist outside the bounds of ‘official’ or ‘national’ projects of collection and heritage management. These projects emerge instead from within communities of music consumption, where groups of interested people have, to some degree, undertaken to do it themselves, creating places (physical and/or online) to store – and, in some cases, display publicly – the material history of music culture. In these places people, largely volunteers, who are not expert in tasks associated with archiving, records management, preservation or other elements involved in cultural heritage management, learn skills along the way as they work to collect, preserve and make public artefacts related to popular music culture. The article argues that these places are suggestive of broader desires from within communities of popular music consumption to preserve popular music heritage.
Curatorial practice in popular music museums: An emerging typology of structuring concepts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2018
Abstract: Museums have been central to the institutionalisation of popular music as heritage yet, there has been little scholarly focus on the curatorial strategies behind the exhibition of popular music’s past. This article outlines an emerging typological framework of structuring concepts in curatorial practice in popular music museums. The typology brings into conversation concepts previously identified by a number of popular music museum scholars. These concepts are critically assessed and built upon substantively by drawing on the subjective experiences of curators involved in the exhibition of popular music in museums in a range of geographical locations. Eight concepts are discussed: dominant (and hidden) histories, projected visitor numbers, place, art and material culture, narrative, curator subjectivity, nostalgia and sound. We argue that such a framework acts as a useful tool for comparing institutional practices internationally and to more fully understand the ways in which popular music history is presented to museum visitors.
Zines as community archive
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-03-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10502-022-09388-1
Abstract: Zines are self-published, do-it-yourself booklets that have a long history as tools for activism in social movements. While archival studies has already explored the collection and preservation of zines as cultural artefacts, this article explores the capacity for zines to act as a form of community archive. The article examines See You at the Paradise , a zine co-created with Norfolk Island community members for a research project focused on Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area. Drawing on Michelle Caswell’s six principles of community archive discourse—participation, shared stewardship, multiplicity, activism, reflexivity, valuing affect—we analyse the extent to which zines and zine-making, as product and process, can be understood as community archive. In doing so, we propose collaborative reminiscence as a seventh principle. The article finds that zines, as community archive, work to strengthen the presence of marginalised voices in dominant historical narratives while also offering an important resource for community-building and political resistance.
Curating Pop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Date: 2019
Abstract: Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from 19 museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, and the PopMuseum in Prague. Through a consideration of the subjective experiences of curators involved in the exhibition of popular music in museums in a range of geographic locations, Curating Pop compares institutional practices internationally, illustrating the ways in which popular music history is presented to visitors in a wider sense.
Toward a Political Economy of Labor in the Media Industries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-04-2011
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Related Funding Activities
(Do-it-yourself Popular Music Archives: An International Comparative Study Of Volunteer-run Institutions That Preserve Popular Music's Material Culture)
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity(Popular Music And Cultural Memory: Localised Popular Music Histories And Their Significance For National Music Industries)
Start Date: 2010
End Date: 2012
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity(Playing For Life: The Everyday Music Practices Of Marginalised Youth As Strategic Pathways To Agency, Employment And Socio-economic Inclusion.)
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 2005
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity(Fellowship For On Site German-Australian Collaboration To Research The Everyday Music Practices Of Marginalised Youth As Pathways To Socio-economic Inclusion.)
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2005
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityReimagining Norfolk Island's Kingston And Arthur's Vale Historic Area
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130100317
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $272,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345917
Start Date: 02-2003
End Date: 05-2006
Amount: $370,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1092910
Start Date: 2010
End Date: 12-2014
Amount: $374,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivitySpecial Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200711
Start Date: 04-2021
End Date: 12-2024
Amount: $229,108.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage - International - Grant ID: LX0560412
Start Date: 01-2005
End Date: 11-2006
Amount: $80,144.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity