Dean Biron
Biographic Data
| ID | 1683848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Biron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Biron |
| SIGNATURE | BIRON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4810-8523 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Always Showing Up Late to the Wrong Party
In recent years, criminologists increasingly have looked to bring to light connections between criminology and contemporary music, in particular rock music. In doing so it can be argued that crime scholars for the most part have proven oblivious to the ongoing dilution/fragmentation of a faltering rock genre. Moreover, there is little discussion in the literature of significant parallels between rock and criminology: most notably, that neither ca…
Framing Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Who Participate in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) are now part of the criminal justice landscape in various parts of the world. While CoSA have received considerable media attention, it is not yet known how they are portrayed in the media. This study addressed this gap by analyzing newspaper coverage of CoSA from across the English-speaking world. Overall, it identified that representations of those convicted of sexual violence in print media accounts…
The Blizzard of Oz
Nick Cave is a hugely successful rock musician who has progressed from post-punk outsider in the 1980s to widely lauded singer-songwriter in the twenty-first century, while simultaneously enjoying critical recognition in fields such as literature and film. This article uses Cave’s 2022 book of interviews Faith, Hope and Carnage, as well as his ongoing blog The Red Hand Files, as a stepping-off point to consider his career trajectory in the contex…
Underrated, overlooked, suppressed, discarded
In canonical narratives of rock music emanating from the global North, the music of Australia and New Zealand continues to be overlooked. This article considers the international critical reception of a range of 1980s bands from Australia and New Zealand, both at the time and subsequently. The analysis shows how the music of the Antipodes largely has been rendered historically irrelevant in canonical terms, highlighting the general importance of …
Songs from the Bardo
Is the album as “event” in rock music – the likes of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Rumors, Purple Rain, Nevermind – still a going concern in the new millennium? In a 2017 Forbes magazin
No Home Record
Edited by Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli, Postmodernism: The Key Figures (2002) discusses 56 individuals crucial to the development of philosophy and the arts in the second half of the twentieth ce
Borne Ceaselessly Backwards
Music titles in the “classic rock” genre are one of the few still-thriving examples of the print magazine format. For old and new fans alike, they provide constant reinforcement of the rock canon and its recognized standard bearers from the 1960s and 1970s. The value of these magazines as cultural criticism is considered by way of three examples focusing on the history of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and the Beatles, respectively. Notwithstanding o…
Never a Dull Moment
William E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan’s The Classic Rock and Roll Reader (1999) is subtitled “Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s,” implying that the period ca. 1975 represented a fina
Every Brilliant Eye
Loaded
The year 1970 seems to have been discarded in hindsight by many rock music critics as nothing particularly special album-wise: marooned in history between praise-smothered mid-’60s icons like Pet S...
Attica!; Armed Courage
The Album
Traditionally, scholarly popular music studies has been the place for sociologists, musicologists, literary critics, and the like to strut their analytical stuff, while the creation of lists of gre...
Isn’t Anything; Loveless; EPs 1988-1991
Counting Down Bob Dylan
Benjamin, Adorno and modern-day flânerie
The flâneur has remained little more than a hazy, nostalgic figure since first described in detail by Baudelaire in 19th-century Paris. Here, the work of Walter Benjamin, who did more than any other to advance the notion of flânerie post-Baudelaire, is considered alongside that of his friend and critic Theodor Adorno, in an attempt to conceive of a modern-day version of the type. The many critical exchanges between Adorno and Benjamin are envisio…
Dialectics, Infant Shaking, and Perpetrator Statements in Child Maltreatment
Dialectics, Infant Shaking, and Perpetrator Statements in Child Maltreatment
Where Does Your Mind Go?; En Form en Blå; The Peregrine; Sagittarian Domain
There are a number of justifications for grouping these four releases. First is their relative obscurity. In an era of immediate digital downloads and on-line purchases, all will require some effor
The Sophtware Slump
Writing and Music
A deceptive aspect of the ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ cliché is the function of the preposition ‘about’. Literature and music, dance and architecture, painting and film – all are discrete aesthetic forms that nonetheless simultaneously feed off and provide nourishment for each other as part of art’s perpetual drive toward diversity and innovation. Nowhere is the aptness of the association between writing and music mor…
Australian rock
Jon Stratton, Perth, Network Books, 2007, 243 pp., A$35.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781920845469 On the face of it Australian Rock might seem a rather straightforward title for a book, one that clearly s
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
Towards a Popular Music Criticism of Replenishment
Attitudes of popular music critics are analyzed so as to identify the various “exhaustion” narratives which have arisen in the wake of the post-Beatles dissolution of rock and pop music into a multitude of genres and sub-genres. It is argued that criticism might better serve audiences by focusing less upon narrow, nostalgic treatments of canonical rock music and more upon a narrative of replenishment for which critical nomadism and the labyrinthi…
Children's Content Regulation and the 'Obesity Epidemic
Some 30 years ago, Australia introduced the Children's Television Standards (CTS) with the twin goals of providing children with high-quality local programs and offering some protection from the perceived harms of television. The most recent review of the CTS occurred in the context of a decade of increasing international concern at rising levels of overweight and obesity, especially in very young children. Overlapping regulatory jurisdictions an…
Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian gothic
As with Crocodile Dundee before it, the recent Australian film Wolf Creek promotes a specific and arguably urban-centric understanding of rural Australia. However, whilst the former film is couched in mythologized notions of the rural idyll, Wolf Creek is based firmly around the concept of rural horror. Wolf Creek is both a horror movie and a road movie, one which relies heavily upon landscape in order to tell its story. Here we argue that the fi…
Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian gothic
As with Crocodile Dundee before it, the recent Australian film Wolf Creek promotes a specific and arguably urban-centric understanding of rural Australia. However, whilst the former film is couched in mythologized notions of the rural idyll, Wolf Creek is based firmly around the concept of rural horror. Wolf Creek is both a horror movie and a road movie, one which relies heavily upon landscape in order to tell its story. Here we argue that the fi…
Towards a Popular Music Criticism of Replenishment
Attitudes of popular music critics are analyzed so as to identify the various “exhaustion” narratives which have arisen in the wake of the post-Beatles dissolution of rock and pop music into a multitude of genres and sub-genres. It is argued that criticism might better serve audiences by focusing less upon narrow, nostalgic treatments of canonical rock music and more upon a narrative of replenishment for which critical nomadism and the labyrinthi…
Benjamin, Adorno and modern-day flânerie
The flâneur has remained little more than a hazy, nostalgic figure since first described in detail by Baudelaire in 19th-century Paris. Here, the work of Walter Benjamin, who did more than any other to advance the notion of flânerie post-Baudelaire, is considered alongside that of his friend and critic Theodor Adorno, in an attempt to conceive of a modern-day version of the type. The many critical exchanges between Adorno and Benjamin are envisio…
What Does It All Mean? 1983–2006 Retrospective
Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian gothic
As with Crocodile Dundee before it, the recent Australian film Wolf Creek promotes a specific and arguably urban-centric understanding of rural Australia. However, whilst the former film is couched in mythologized notions of the rural idyll, Wolf Creek is based firmly around the concept of rural horror. Wolf Creek is both a horror movie and a road movie, one which relies heavily upon landscape in order to tell its story. Here we argue that the fi…
Audio Reviews
Writing and Music
A deceptive aspect of the ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ cliché is the function of the preposition ‘about’. Literature and music, dance and architecture, painting and film – all are discrete aesthetic forms that nonetheless simultaneously feed off and provide nourishment for each other as part of art’s perpetual drive toward diversity and innovation. Nowhere is the aptness of the association between writing and music mor…
Australian rock
Jon Stratton, Perth, Network Books, 2007, 243 pp., A$35.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781920845469 On the face of it Australian Rock might seem a rather straightforward title for a book, one that clearly s
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
Towards a Popular Music Criticism of Replenishment
Attitudes of popular music critics are analyzed so as to identify the various “exhaustion” narratives which have arisen in the wake of the post-Beatles dissolution of rock and pop music into a multitude of genres and sub-genres. It is argued that criticism might better serve audiences by focusing less upon narrow, nostalgic treatments of canonical rock music and more upon a narrative of replenishment for which critical nomadism and the labyrinthi…
Children's Content Regulation and the 'Obesity Epidemic
Some 30 years ago, Australia introduced the Children's Television Standards (CTS) with the twin goals of providing children with high-quality local programs and offering some protection from the perceived harms of television. The most recent review of the CTS occurred in the context of a decade of increasing international concern at rising levels of overweight and obesity, especially in very young children. Overlapping regulatory jurisdictions an…
The Sophtware Slump
Dialectics, Infant Shaking, and Perpetrator Statements in Child Maltreatment
Dialectics, Infant Shaking, and Perpetrator Statements in Child Maltreatment
Where Does Your Mind Go?; En Form en Blå; The Peregrine; Sagittarian Domain
There are a number of justifications for grouping these four releases. First is their relative obscurity. In an era of immediate digital downloads and on-line purchases, all will require some effor
The Album
Traditionally, scholarly popular music studies has been the place for sociologists, musicologists, literary critics, and the like to strut their analytical stuff, while the creation of lists of gre...
Isn’t Anything; Loveless; EPs 1988-1991
Counting Down Bob Dylan
Benjamin, Adorno and modern-day flânerie
The flâneur has remained little more than a hazy, nostalgic figure since first described in detail by Baudelaire in 19th-century Paris. Here, the work of Walter Benjamin, who did more than any other to advance the notion of flânerie post-Baudelaire, is considered alongside that of his friend and critic Theodor Adorno, in an attempt to conceive of a modern-day version of the type. The many critical exchanges between Adorno and Benjamin are envisio…
Attica!; Armed Courage
Loaded
The year 1970 seems to have been discarded in hindsight by many rock music critics as nothing particularly special album-wise: marooned in history between praise-smothered mid-’60s icons like Pet S...
Every Brilliant Eye
Never a Dull Moment
William E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan’s The Classic Rock and Roll Reader (1999) is subtitled “Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s,” implying that the period ca. 1975 represented a fina
Borne Ceaselessly Backwards
Music titles in the “classic rock” genre are one of the few still-thriving examples of the print magazine format. For old and new fans alike, they provide constant reinforcement of the rock canon and its recognized standard bearers from the 1960s and 1970s. The value of these magazines as cultural criticism is considered by way of three examples focusing on the history of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and the Beatles, respectively. Notwithstanding o…
Songs from the Bardo
Is the album as “event” in rock music – the likes of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Rumors, Purple Rain, Nevermind – still a going concern in the new millennium? In a 2017 Forbes magazin
No Home Record
Edited by Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli, Postmodernism: The Key Figures (2002) discusses 56 individuals crucial to the development of philosophy and the arts in the second half of the twentieth ce
The Blizzard of Oz
Nick Cave is a hugely successful rock musician who has progressed from post-punk outsider in the 1980s to widely lauded singer-songwriter in the twenty-first century, while simultaneously enjoying critical recognition in fields such as literature and film. This article uses Cave’s 2022 book of interviews Faith, Hope and Carnage, as well as his ongoing blog The Red Hand Files, as a stepping-off point to consider his career trajectory in the contex…
Underrated, overlooked, suppressed, discarded
In canonical narratives of rock music emanating from the global North, the music of Australia and New Zealand continues to be overlooked. This article considers the international critical reception of a range of 1980s bands from Australia and New Zealand, both at the time and subsequently. The analysis shows how the music of the Antipodes largely has been rendered historically irrelevant in canonical terms, highlighting the general importance of …
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