M Breen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Breen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Breen |
| SIGNATURE | BREEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1917-4356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
TikTok Containment meets "The threat of a good example": Inversion gets more than 15 seconds of fame
When President Donald Trump proposed to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok on national security grounds on August 6, 2020, it marked a pivotal moment in the interaction between many contending layers of political life. Cojoined in a register of nationalist rhetoric, US national policies cross-referenced geopolitics, and the history of international competition and cooperation in global trade flows with and against China. As such, the pr…
Napster "freedom" at Northeastern University: A distanced ethnography
This article offers a critical first hand account, from an academic at Northeastern University after Napster's creator Sean Fanniong left the campus in 1999. Reflecting on the impact of Fanning on the campus, drawing on the history of community computer innovation in Boston as a means of activism, the article identifies through Marx, the way monopoly capitalism destroyed Napster's capacity for free music culture. The impact of Intellectual Proper…
Chimerica: Disorienting Politics
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association s Globalization and Culture Working Group Co-Host Kathalene Razzano discuss Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (University of Michigan Press, 2024) with author Fan Yang, along with writer and historian Mark Tseng-Putterman. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Marcus Breen
Coronavirus Pedagogy in the Zoomoscape: Pinhole Intimacy Culture Meets Conscientization
The COVID-19 pandemic emptied universities, colleges, and schools across the United States in March 2020, forcing instructors into an unavoidable culture in which a networked commercial technology mediated teaching and learning. In the tradition of critical pedagogy, this article argues that students and instructors alike engaged through the artificial lenses and screens of Zoom. The “pinhole intimacy” of the Zoomscape is assessed using conscient…
Feminist psychogeography long after May 1968: Whatever Happened to My Revolution
Whatever Happened to My Revolution offers a French feminist perspective on the impact today of the uprising by the left in Paris in May 1968. The continuing appeal of the events of ‘68 are considered to be in decline, yet the film suggests that the energy of 50 years ago continues to mobilize cultural politics through cinematic appeals that amount to the radical recuperation of some of the ambitions of the day, a continuation of the past in the p…
Public policy case studies in reactionary politics: Why US Cultural Studies needs political economy
Melinda Cooper's Family Values could be a wakeup call to Cultural Studies as it has been practiced in the United States since the mid-1990s. In this book Cooper offers a descriptive critique of how
Melbourne popular music in the museum: Locating the academy in the sonic city
An exhibition at RMIT University in 2013–2014, ‘Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 Years of Mushroom and Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture’, suggested that art museums can offer new ways of engaging with the complex world of popular creativity and commerce in its urban location. In an effort to move beyond established tropes of popular music representations featuring static displays of posters, album covers, costumes and photography, an audio-visual inv…
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 315–316
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Music Industry and Pop Culture
If Australian music industry studies were to be considered as those produced locally within the academic domain, then we could count them on the fingers of one hand. This short review of literature in the field of Australian music and record industry studies highlights the paucity of locally published material and seeks to establish directions in which a music industry study can proceed
US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron
This essay began in 1999 as an attempt to update my perceptions and experiences as a resident alien in the USA. Written expressly for what was then The UTS Review, it was intended to follow up my earlier piece published in 1997, 'The Cultural Studies Thing You Do: In the USA after Sokal'. Just as the challenges initiated by that 'affair' seem to have evaporated, or been absorbed into the apparatus of systemic reinvention in the US academy, I am r…
Should We Care? Policing Cultural Studies in the New Media Millennium
What's Become of Cultural Studies? Graeme Turner London, Sage Publications, 2012 200 pp., ISBN 978-1849205832, $108 hbk ISBN 978-1849205849, $46.00 pbk If the title of this book were to be taken at
Privileged migration: American undergraduates, study abroad, academic tourism
American undergraduates are increasingly engaging in educational study abroad programmes. This article examines and explains the trends in international university education from the perspective of a former faculty member at Northeastern University, a large private university in Boston. The article explains how cultural studies can be invoked as a circuit breaker to challenge the assumptions of privileged Americans who travel to the (global) Sout…
A Different Crossroads-or Meeting the Devil in Cultural Studies
The Crossroads Conference in Paris, July 2012 offered an international perspective on cultural studies. After the event, seeing mention of cultural studies in the context of Nazi Germany opened up questions about the history of cultural studies, its ambitions and position in the contemporary, neo-liberal academy. Drawing on various conjunctures in personal and social life, the article reflects on the challenges for cultural studies when set again…
Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture – Introduction to the Special Issue of tripleC
The worldwide economic downturn is indicative for a new large crisis of capitalism. The future of capitalism is in this situation not determined, but depends on collective human agency. This introduction to the special issue of tripleC on “Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture” presents general arguments about the crisis, a general model of the political economy of capitalist communication, and a systematic typology of literature about capit…
Digital determinism: Culture industries in the USA-Australia Free Trade Agreement
The USA—Australia Free Trade Agreement was one of several bilateral free trade agreements signed in the early to mid-2000s that explicitly incorporated free trade in digital content. This article argues that Australian policymakers failed to recognize the consequences of the agreement for national culture industries such as film, television and popular music. The agreement introduced a complex range of policy considerations. These included the ci…
Love and the Triffids
Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids , edited by Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy (Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2009, 384pp, $35.00). Publisher’s website: www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/currentaffairs_culture_social_history/1104
Struggling to Make Ideology Explicit
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration
Popular music policy making and the Instrumental Policy Behaviour Process
Popular music policy making incorporates the art and rationality of 'governmentality'. In doing so it seeks to move beyond benign policy making efforts and some of the prevailing approaches to cultural policy studies - primarily arts policy - to apply interventionary strategies into the space dominated by global recording companies. Major recording companies and the business-as-usual approach of Return on Investment dominates local and national p…
Information Does not Equal Knowledge: Theorizing the Political Economy of Virtuality
This paper argues that causation theory has a role in discussions about knowledge in the virtual context. Drawing on cultural studies, it suggests that the fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history. A knowledge gap has been produced that needs careful consideration by those people and institutions advocating the use of virtual technologies. Virtuality is about a …
The music industry, technology and utopia - an exchange between Marcus Breen and Eamonn Forde
A new struggle has emerged within popular music. This struggle is about technology and access to music through computer-mediated technology. Somewhat typical of the state of cultural things being more complex in their multiple articulations, this struggle runs in tandem with the historical struggle by youth for 'their music' against that of previous generations. The multiple characteristics of the struggle over cultural production, ownership and …
Utopianism and its discontents
Rock Dogs: Politics and the Australian Music Industry
Evolving at Speed: Theorizing Popular Music in the Digital Age
This article argues that the theory of cultural mobility can help explain what is taking place in the emerging digital communications environment. The theory suggests that rock music may no longer be a leading cultural product. Rather, it will become an undifferentiated digital product delivered into privileged domestic environments. Rock and popular music will be marginalized as a cultural force within the new digital culture. The corporate econ…
The end of the world as we know it: Popular music's cultural mobility
Popular music has moved to the centre of economic life, suggesting a shift in the political economy of advanced societies. The transition has been marked by a concomitant shift in the centrality of popular music in social life, assisted by new technologies. More importantly, the changes have been brought about by the reorganization of record company ownership and activity since the 1980s. This paper suggests that cultural studies could apply aspe…
Privileged migration: American undergraduates, study abroad, academic tourism
American undergraduates are increasingly engaging in educational study abroad programmes. This article examines and explains the trends in international university education from the perspective of a former faculty member at Northeastern University, a large private university in Boston. The article explains how cultural studies can be invoked as a circuit breaker to challenge the assumptions of privileged Americans who travel to the (global) Sout…
The music industry, technology and utopia - an exchange between Marcus Breen and Eamonn Forde
A new struggle has emerged within popular music. This struggle is about technology and access to music through computer-mediated technology. Somewhat typical of the state of cultural things being more complex in their multiple articulations, this struggle runs in tandem with the historical struggle by youth for 'their music' against that of previous generations. The multiple characteristics of the struggle over cultural production, ownership and …
Digital determinism: Culture industries in the USA-Australia Free Trade Agreement
The USA—Australia Free Trade Agreement was one of several bilateral free trade agreements signed in the early to mid-2000s that explicitly incorporated free trade in digital content. This article argues that Australian policymakers failed to recognize the consequences of the agreement for national culture industries such as film, television and popular music. The agreement introduced a complex range of policy considerations. These included the ci…
Popular music policy making and the Instrumental Policy Behaviour Process
Popular music policy making incorporates the art and rationality of 'governmentality'. In doing so it seeks to move beyond benign policy making efforts and some of the prevailing approaches to cultural policy studies - primarily arts policy - to apply interventionary strategies into the space dominated by global recording companies. Major recording companies and the business-as-usual approach of Return on Investment dominates local and national p…
Constructing the popular from public funding of community music: Notes from Australia
Those things that go under community music and people who call themselves community music practitioners and organisations, have got to remember all the community music that is happening anyway. But at this point in time I think that it is incredibly important to develop community music activities, to fuel the fire and create examples of what the possibilities are. The real community music will happen when that is generating spontaneously out of c…
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration
Information Does not Equal Knowledge: Theorizing the Political Economy of Virtuality
This paper argues that causation theory has a role in discussions about knowledge in the virtual context. Drawing on cultural studies, it suggests that the fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history. A knowledge gap has been produced that needs careful consideration by those people and institutions advocating the use of virtual technologies. Virtuality is about a …
Oz rock
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Billboard goes into technological overdrive to make radio hits
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A stairway to heaven or a highway to hell: Heavy metal rock music in the 1990s
(1991). A stairway to heaven or a highway to hell?: Heavy metal rock music in the 1990s. Cultural Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 191-203
Constructing the popular from public funding of community music: Notes from Australia
Those things that go under community music and people who call themselves community music practitioners and organisations, have got to remember all the community music that is happening anyway. But at this point in time I think that it is incredibly important to develop community music activities, to fuel the fire and create examples of what the possibilities are. The real community music will happen when that is generating spontaneously out of c…
Bibliography of books on Australian popular music
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Selected discography
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The end of the world as we know it: Popular music's cultural mobility
Popular music has moved to the centre of economic life, suggesting a shift in the political economy of advanced societies. The transition has been marked by a concomitant shift in the centrality of popular music in social life, assisted by new technologies. More importantly, the changes have been brought about by the reorganization of record company ownership and activity since the 1980s. This paper suggests that cultural studies could apply aspe…
Evolving at Speed: Theorizing Popular Music in the Digital Age
This article argues that the theory of cultural mobility can help explain what is taking place in the emerging digital communications environment. The theory suggests that rock music may no longer be a leading cultural product. Rather, it will become an undifferentiated digital product delivered into privileged domestic environments. Rock and popular music will be marginalized as a cultural force within the new digital culture. The corporate econ…
Rock Dogs: Politics and the Australian Music Industry
Utopianism and its discontents
The music industry, technology and utopia - an exchange between Marcus Breen and Eamonn Forde
A new struggle has emerged within popular music. This struggle is about technology and access to music through computer-mediated technology. Somewhat typical of the state of cultural things being more complex in their multiple articulations, this struggle runs in tandem with the historical struggle by youth for 'their music' against that of previous generations. The multiple characteristics of the struggle over cultural production, ownership and …
Information Does not Equal Knowledge: Theorizing the Political Economy of Virtuality
This paper argues that causation theory has a role in discussions about knowledge in the virtual context. Drawing on cultural studies, it suggests that the fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history. A knowledge gap has been produced that needs careful consideration by those people and institutions advocating the use of virtual technologies. Virtuality is about a …
Popular music policy making and the Instrumental Policy Behaviour Process
Popular music policy making incorporates the art and rationality of 'governmentality'. In doing so it seeks to move beyond benign policy making efforts and some of the prevailing approaches to cultural policy studies - primarily arts policy - to apply interventionary strategies into the space dominated by global recording companies. Major recording companies and the business-as-usual approach of Return on Investment dominates local and national p…
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration
Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture – Introduction to the Special Issue of tripleC
The worldwide economic downturn is indicative for a new large crisis of capitalism. The future of capitalism is in this situation not determined, but depends on collective human agency. This introduction to the special issue of tripleC on “Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture” presents general arguments about the crisis, a general model of the political economy of capitalist communication, and a systematic typology of literature about capit…
Digital determinism: Culture industries in the USA-Australia Free Trade Agreement
The USA—Australia Free Trade Agreement was one of several bilateral free trade agreements signed in the early to mid-2000s that explicitly incorporated free trade in digital content. This article argues that Australian policymakers failed to recognize the consequences of the agreement for national culture industries such as film, television and popular music. The agreement introduced a complex range of policy considerations. These included the ci…
Love and the Triffids
Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids , edited by Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy (Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2009, 384pp, $35.00). Publisher’s website: www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/currentaffairs_culture_social_history/1104
Struggling to Make Ideology Explicit
Privileged migration: American undergraduates, study abroad, academic tourism
American undergraduates are increasingly engaging in educational study abroad programmes. This article examines and explains the trends in international university education from the perspective of a former faculty member at Northeastern University, a large private university in Boston. The article explains how cultural studies can be invoked as a circuit breaker to challenge the assumptions of privileged Americans who travel to the (global) Sout…
A Different Crossroads-or Meeting the Devil in Cultural Studies
The Crossroads Conference in Paris, July 2012 offered an international perspective on cultural studies. After the event, seeing mention of cultural studies in the context of Nazi Germany opened up questions about the history of cultural studies, its ambitions and position in the contemporary, neo-liberal academy. Drawing on various conjunctures in personal and social life, the article reflects on the challenges for cultural studies when set again…
US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron
This essay began in 1999 as an attempt to update my perceptions and experiences as a resident alien in the USA. Written expressly for what was then The UTS Review, it was intended to follow up my earlier piece published in 1997, 'The Cultural Studies Thing You Do: In the USA after Sokal'. Just as the challenges initiated by that 'affair' seem to have evaporated, or been absorbed into the apparatus of systemic reinvention in the US academy, I am r…
Should We Care? Policing Cultural Studies in the New Media Millennium
What's Become of Cultural Studies? Graeme Turner London, Sage Publications, 2012 200 pp., ISBN 978-1849205832, $108 hbk ISBN 978-1849205849, $46.00 pbk If the title of this book were to be taken at
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Music Industry and Pop Culture
If Australian music industry studies were to be considered as those produced locally within the academic domain, then we could count them on the fingers of one hand. This short review of literature in the field of Australian music and record industry studies highlights the paucity of locally published material and seeks to establish directions in which a music industry study can proceed
Melbourne popular music in the museum: Locating the academy in the sonic city
An exhibition at RMIT University in 2013–2014, ‘Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 Years of Mushroom and Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture’, suggested that art museums can offer new ways of engaging with the complex world of popular creativity and commerce in its urban location. In an effort to move beyond established tropes of popular music representations featuring static displays of posters, album covers, costumes and photography, an audio-visual inv…
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 315–316
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