Shelley Brunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Brunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunt |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6356-5939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Career reconstruction
This article reviews current paradigms of music industry careers in order to theorise how career breaks and interruptions may be understood by music industry workers. While the career trajectories of young, independent and early-career musicians have been examined extensively, the lives of workers who are experiencing life course transformations (such as parenthood, ageing and health issues) and those who have taken a break from the music industr…
Getting back to my old self’
Music as Magic
Introduction Music scholarship across genres is often concerned with music's metaphysical and ephemeral effects on individuals, communities, and society. These scholarly framings constitute a concept that we refer to here as “the magic of music”. Using this framing, this article addresses the ways that the magic is undermined by a range of worldly, non-magical realities, using the case study of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and their devastatin…
Popular Music and Parenting
Our ‘stay home’ music video
Home life during COVID-19 is simply overwhelming for academics trying to balance online teaching and research expectations alongside caring for children. This article considers how the hard-line ‘stay home’ lockdown directive in Melbourne 2020 forced a dramatic collision of two roles (parent and researcher), which prompted the creation of a new methodology concerning children’s music-media practices that was “grounded in in active, intimate, hand…
The Australian music industry's mental health crisis
How has the Australian music industry's mental health crisis played out in the media during the coronavirus pandemic? This commentary article considers a snapshot of media reports about this issue. We survey print and online media, press releases, official websites, online seminars and social media from March to June 2020. During this time, the industry has faced financial loss, job insecurity and anxiety for the future of Australian music, thus …
“Changing Japan, unchanging Japan”
In 2005, Eurovision&s;s milestone 50th program generated unprecedented interest with fans and media pondering the contest&s;s modest origins and subsequent development. The 50th Red and White, held in 1999, aroused comparable levels of expectancy and reflection. This chapter examines the program&s;s historical shaping from a humble national radio show to the extravagant, internationally televised gala event of the 50th Red and White. It explores …
Lookin, searchin, seekin, findin’
Click, Play and Save’
This article explores the potential for web-based interactive music resources to represent and sustain music-culture heritage via digital means. Our focus is the University of Otago’s virtual Indonesian gamelan (iGamelan): an immersive online resource featuring interactive musical instruments, an audio-video gallery, and information archive. Designed in 2010–2011 for use within the tertiary education context, the iGamelan stands alone as an innov…
The Australian music industry's mental health crisis
How has the Australian music industry's mental health crisis played out in the media during the coronavirus pandemic? This commentary article considers a snapshot of media reports about this issue. We survey print and online media, press releases, official websites, online seminars and social media from March to June 2020. During this time, the industry has faced financial loss, job insecurity and anxiety for the future of Australian music, thus …
Click, Play and Save’
This article explores the potential for web-based interactive music resources to represent and sustain music-culture heritage via digital means. Our focus is the University of Otago’s virtual Indonesian gamelan (iGamelan): an immersive online resource featuring interactive musical instruments, an audio-video gallery, and information archive. Designed in 2010–2011 for use within the tertiary education context, the iGamelan stands alone as an innov…
Lookin, searchin, seekin, findin’
“Changing Japan, unchanging Japan”
In 2005, Eurovision&s;s milestone 50th program generated unprecedented interest with fans and media pondering the contest&s;s modest origins and subsequent development. The 50th Red and White, held in 1999, aroused comparable levels of expectancy and reflection. This chapter examines the program&s;s historical shaping from a humble national radio show to the extravagant, internationally televised gala event of the 50th Red and White. It explores …
Our ‘stay home’ music video
Home life during COVID-19 is simply overwhelming for academics trying to balance online teaching and research expectations alongside caring for children. This article considers how the hard-line ‘stay home’ lockdown directive in Melbourne 2020 forced a dramatic collision of two roles (parent and researcher), which prompted the creation of a new methodology concerning children’s music-media practices that was “grounded in in active, intimate, hand…
The Australian music industry's mental health crisis
How has the Australian music industry's mental health crisis played out in the media during the coronavirus pandemic? This commentary article considers a snapshot of media reports about this issue. We survey print and online media, press releases, official websites, online seminars and social media from March to June 2020. During this time, the industry has faced financial loss, job insecurity and anxiety for the future of Australian music, thus …
Popular Music and Parenting
Music as Magic
Introduction Music scholarship across genres is often concerned with music's metaphysical and ephemeral effects on individuals, communities, and society. These scholarly framings constitute a concept that we refer to here as “the magic of music”. Using this framing, this article addresses the ways that the magic is undermined by a range of worldly, non-magical realities, using the case study of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and their devastatin…
Career reconstruction
This article reviews current paradigms of music industry careers in order to theorise how career breaks and interruptions may be understood by music industry workers. While the career trajectories of young, independent and early-career musicians have been examined extensively, the lives of workers who are experiencing life course transformations (such as parenthood, ageing and health issues) and those who have taken a break from the music industr…
Getting back to my old self’
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Higher Education and Employability (2 works)