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Murray Parker

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ID3589536
NAMEMurray Parker
GIVEN NAMESMurray
FAMILY NAMEParker
SIGNATUREPARKER M
AFFILIATIONSCharles Sturt University
ORCID0000-0002-1137-4302
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS22
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3
  • The Formal Recognition of Scent as a Cultural Value in Australasian Heritage Registers

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2026

    Cultural heritage arises from the interactions of people and the connected environment, manifesting in both tangible and intangible forms. Standard management aims to identify and register heritage assets, with subsequent conservation preserving identified values. Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoa heritage-specific legislation enshrines distinct ascribed values, formed in response to charters presenting heritage philosophies. Recent shifts towa…

  • A Multisensory Puzzle

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk HR Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Heritage & Society•2026

    Christmas markets offer a wealth of sensory experiences and historical/cultural value. Whilst sensory experiences may be recognized as heritage if having social value and transmitted intergenerationally, no research has investigated on-site heritage perceptions of the multisensorial Christmas markets experience. This study examined sensory/multisensory experiences and heritage perceptions of five European Christmas markets (Dresden, Mainz, Frankf…

  • Collecting Christmas Commerce

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo•2025

    German Christmas markets form an integral component of the seasonal calendar. Given the significant role Christmas Markets play in German society, we ask the question whether and to what extent objects from these markets have been and/or are being collected by German cultural institutions. In doing so, the authors surveyed museums in all German communities that held Christmas markets before the intensified proliferation period of the late 1970s. …

  • The Identification and Documentation of On-site Sensory and Multisensory Experience-A Methodological Protocol

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•CAM•2025•References: 35

    Single and multiple sense stimuli create sensescapes, which combine to be perceived as multisensory integrated products. Such encounters may be experienced across multiple spaces and have importance due to esthetic sensuality, cultural value, economic benefit, or religious significance. This article presents a methodological protocol for the identification and documentation of on-site sensory and multisensory experiences. It outlines currently ac…

  • Recognising Tactual Aspects of the Urban Environment Through Walking—A Critical Discussion of Touch-, Tactile-, and Haptic-Based Sensewalk Methodologies

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Science•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Tactile aspects of the urban environment may be recognised through various capacities of human sensation, including cutaneous, kinaesthetic, and proprioceptive awareness. Haptic attributes often need intentional engagement for ultimate experience and information provision, but it is exactly this imprecision that initiates challenges when dealing with tactility in a space. Whilst tactile components can be experienced when stationary or through wal…

  • The exploration of sensory and multisensory experiences of Hobart’s Salamanca Market and their potential as intangible heritage

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2024•References: 11

  • Reverberating Silence

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage & Society•2024•References: 28

    The personal and community identity of many areas of greater Europe has been interwoven with religious practice, with the ringing of church bells often dictating the quotidian rhythms of life. The symbolism of churches and church bells can be likened to that of monuments, with the erection of bell towers and the installation of bells engendering certain political powers, both in the secular and sacred realm. Just as the creation of an auditory ma…

  • Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•The Senses and Society•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 42

    Following the "authorized heritage discourse" in heritage management, visual components have traditionally formed the basis of aesthetic value assessment of heritage assets. Despite being considered important by national legislation and international conventions, other sensory components have been comparatively under-researched and are generally ignored. No research to date has investigated the breadth and depth of these sensory components either…

  • Using destination reviews to explore tourists’ sensory experiences at Christmas markets in Germany and Austria

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Christmas markets in Germany and Austria exhibit historic, mercantile, social and experiential dimensions, entrenching them both as a form of heritage and as visitable sites of society and culture, yet research into tourist perception of sensory and multisensory experiential components of these markets has been highly limited thus far. This paper examines the extent of sensory components experienced in Dresden Strietzelmarkt, Nuremberg Christkind…

  • To Ring or Not to Ring

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Despite church bell ringing being directly influenced by purposive human action, often as a liturgical function, it creates a community soundscape with ascribed heritage values. While general heritage management processes and decisions are informed by heritage professionals with a broader range of experience, we find that church bell ringing is contrary to this process. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how a stochastic disruptive event can …

  • Sounds of patriotism and propaganda

    Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 2

    In late nineteenth-century France, church bells were an integral part of society, sounding the quotidian rhythms of life. During WWI, a shortage of metals for the war effort resulted in German authorities requisitioning church bells in Germany and occupied territories. While the sequestration of the only bell from the church L’Eglise Sainte-Geneviève in the village of Marquillies (France) occurred under this guise, this was an invented cover stor…

  • The Changing Face of German Christmas Markets

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While claiming to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. In contemporary times, these markets also have quantifiable social and experiential dimensions. The last of these, the experiential dimension, is a mélange of visual, auditory, and olf…

  • Contemporary Sound Practices

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•References: 3

    As a social species, humans have developed soundscapes that surround, and to some extent circumscribe, their daily existence. The concept of aural heritage, its conceptualization and its management represent a rapidly expanding area of research, covering aspects of both natural and human heritage. However, there have been no contemporary regional or supra-regional studies that examine the nature of sound making in Christian religious settings, no…

  • Stille Nacht

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While purported to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. The experiential dimension is a collection of visual, auditory, and olfactory components that create a compound sensory response: the ‘Christmas atmosphere’. The prevalence of COVID-1…

  • Addendum

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Religions•2020

    The authors would like to make the following corrections in relation to the published paper (Parker and Spennemann 2020) [...]

  • After They Fell Silent

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2020•References: 15

    The Washington Arms Limitation Treaty 1922 was arguably one the most significant disarmament treaties of the first half of the 20th century. It can be shown that the heritage items associated with this treaty are still extant. Ship’s bells are one of the few moveable objects that are specific to the operational life of a ship and are therefore highly symbolic in representing a vessel. This paper surveys which bells of the ships scrapped under con…

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Religions•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 50

    For centuries, religious buildings have been using bells to call the faithful to prayer. Bell-ringing activity on church premises does not serve a purely religious function, however, as people in the community may perceive this activity secularly, attributing their own meanings and significances towards these sounds. If bell ringing (or the actual sound) were found to have great significance to a specific community, denomination, or a regionality…

  • Stille Nacht

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While purported to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. The experiential dimension is a collection of visual, auditory, and olfactory components that create a compound sensory response: the ‘Christmas atmosphere’. The prevalence of COVID-1…

  • Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•The Senses and Society•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 42

    Following the "authorized heritage discourse" in heritage management, visual components have traditionally formed the basis of aesthetic value assessment of heritage assets. Despite being considered important by national legislation and international conventions, other sensory components have been comparatively under-researched and are generally ignored. No research to date has investigated the breadth and depth of these sensory components either…

  • To Ring or Not to Ring

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Despite church bell ringing being directly influenced by purposive human action, often as a liturgical function, it creates a community soundscape with ascribed heritage values. While general heritage management processes and decisions are informed by heritage professionals with a broader range of experience, we find that church bell ringing is contrary to this process. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how a stochastic disruptive event can …

  • Using destination reviews to explore tourists’ sensory experiences at Christmas markets in Germany and Austria

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Christmas markets in Germany and Austria exhibit historic, mercantile, social and experiential dimensions, entrenching them both as a form of heritage and as visitable sites of society and culture, yet research into tourist perception of sensory and multisensory experiential components of these markets has been highly limited thus far. This paper examines the extent of sensory components experienced in Dresden Strietzelmarkt, Nuremberg Christkind…

  • Sounds of patriotism and propaganda

    Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 2

    In late nineteenth-century France, church bells were an integral part of society, sounding the quotidian rhythms of life. During WWI, a shortage of metals for the war effort resulted in German authorities requisitioning church bells in Germany and occupied territories. While the sequestration of the only bell from the church L’Eglise Sainte-Geneviève in the village of Marquillies (France) occurred under this guise, this was an invented cover stor…

  • The Changing Face of German Christmas Markets

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While claiming to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. In contemporary times, these markets also have quantifiable social and experiential dimensions. The last of these, the experiential dimension, is a mélange of visual, auditory, and olf…

  • Recognising Tactual Aspects of the Urban Environment Through Walking—A Critical Discussion of Touch-, Tactile-, and Haptic-Based Sensewalk Methodologies

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Science•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Tactile aspects of the urban environment may be recognised through various capacities of human sensation, including cutaneous, kinaesthetic, and proprioceptive awareness. Haptic attributes often need intentional engagement for ultimate experience and information provision, but it is exactly this imprecision that initiates challenges when dealing with tactility in a space. Whilst tactile components can be experienced when stationary or through wal…

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Religions•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 50

    For centuries, religious buildings have been using bells to call the faithful to prayer. Bell-ringing activity on church premises does not serve a purely religious function, however, as people in the community may perceive this activity secularly, attributing their own meanings and significances towards these sounds. If bell ringing (or the actual sound) were found to have great significance to a specific community, denomination, or a regionality…

  • Addendum

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Religions•2020

    The authors would like to make the following corrections in relation to the published paper (Parker and Spennemann 2020) [...]

  • After They Fell Silent

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2020•References: 15

    The Washington Arms Limitation Treaty 1922 was arguably one the most significant disarmament treaties of the first half of the 20th century. It can be shown that the heritage items associated with this treaty are still extant. Ship’s bells are one of the few moveable objects that are specific to the operational life of a ship and are therefore highly symbolic in representing a vessel. This paper surveys which bells of the ships scrapped under con…

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Religions•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 50

    For centuries, religious buildings have been using bells to call the faithful to prayer. Bell-ringing activity on church premises does not serve a purely religious function, however, as people in the community may perceive this activity secularly, attributing their own meanings and significances towards these sounds. If bell ringing (or the actual sound) were found to have great significance to a specific community, denomination, or a regionality…

  • The Changing Face of German Christmas Markets

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While claiming to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. In contemporary times, these markets also have quantifiable social and experiential dimensions. The last of these, the experiential dimension, is a mélange of visual, auditory, and olf…

  • Contemporary Sound Practices

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•References: 3

    As a social species, humans have developed soundscapes that surround, and to some extent circumscribe, their daily existence. The concept of aural heritage, its conceptualization and its management represent a rapidly expanding area of research, covering aspects of both natural and human heritage. However, there have been no contemporary regional or supra-regional studies that examine the nature of sound making in Christian religious settings, no…

  • Stille Nacht

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While purported to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to experiential events. The experiential dimension is a collection of visual, auditory, and olfactory components that create a compound sensory response: the ‘Christmas atmosphere’. The prevalence of COVID-1…

  • To Ring or Not to Ring

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Heritage•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Despite church bell ringing being directly influenced by purposive human action, often as a liturgical function, it creates a community soundscape with ascribed heritage values. While general heritage management processes and decisions are informed by heritage professionals with a broader range of experience, we find that church bell ringing is contrary to this process. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how a stochastic disruptive event can …

  • Sounds of patriotism and propaganda

    Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Archaeology•2022•Cited by: 2

    In late nineteenth-century France, church bells were an integral part of society, sounding the quotidian rhythms of life. During WWI, a shortage of metals for the war effort resulted in German authorities requisitioning church bells in Germany and occupied territories. While the sequestration of the only bell from the church L’Eglise Sainte-Geneviève in the village of Marquillies (France) occurred under this guise, this was an invented cover stor…

  • Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•The Senses and Society•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 42

    Following the "authorized heritage discourse" in heritage management, visual components have traditionally formed the basis of aesthetic value assessment of heritage assets. Despite being considered important by national legislation and international conventions, other sensory components have been comparatively under-researched and are generally ignored. No research to date has investigated the breadth and depth of these sensory components either…

  • Using destination reviews to explore tourists’ sensory experiences at Christmas markets in Germany and Austria

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    Christmas markets in Germany and Austria exhibit historic, mercantile, social and experiential dimensions, entrenching them both as a form of heritage and as visitable sites of society and culture, yet research into tourist perception of sensory and multisensory experiential components of these markets has been highly limited thus far. This paper examines the extent of sensory components experienced in Dresden Strietzelmarkt, Nuremberg Christkind…

  • Recognising Tactual Aspects of the Urban Environment Through Walking—A Critical Discussion of Touch-, Tactile-, and Haptic-Based Sensewalk Methodologies

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Science•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Tactile aspects of the urban environment may be recognised through various capacities of human sensation, including cutaneous, kinaesthetic, and proprioceptive awareness. Haptic attributes often need intentional engagement for ultimate experience and information provision, but it is exactly this imprecision that initiates challenges when dealing with tactility in a space. Whilst tactile components can be experienced when stationary or through wal…

  • The exploration of sensory and multisensory experiences of Hobart’s Salamanca Market and their potential as intangible heritage

    Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Heritage Tourism•2024•References: 11

  • Reverberating Silence

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage & Society•2024•References: 28

    The personal and community identity of many areas of greater Europe has been interwoven with religious practice, with the ringing of church bells often dictating the quotidian rhythms of life. The symbolism of churches and church bells can be likened to that of monuments, with the erection of bell towers and the installation of bells engendering certain political powers, both in the secular and sacred realm. Just as the creation of an auditory ma…

  • Collecting Christmas Commerce

    Open Access•Dirk H R Spennemann, Murray Parker•ARTICLE•Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo•2025

    German Christmas markets form an integral component of the seasonal calendar. Given the significant role Christmas Markets play in German society, we ask the question whether and to what extent objects from these markets have been and/or are being collected by German cultural institutions. In doing so, the authors surveyed museums in all German communities that held Christmas markets before the intensified proliferation period of the late 1970s. …

  • The Identification and Documentation of On-site Sensory and Multisensory Experience-A Methodological Protocol

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•CAM•2025•References: 35

    Single and multiple sense stimuli create sensescapes, which combine to be perceived as multisensory integrated products. Such encounters may be experienced across multiple spaces and have importance due to esthetic sensuality, cultural value, economic benefit, or religious significance. This article presents a methodological protocol for the identification and documentation of on-site sensory and multisensory experiences. It outlines currently ac…

  • The Formal Recognition of Scent as a Cultural Value in Australasian Heritage Registers

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk H R Spennemann•ARTICLE•Heritage•2026

    Cultural heritage arises from the interactions of people and the connected environment, manifesting in both tangible and intangible forms. Standard management aims to identify and register heritage assets, with subsequent conservation preserving identified values. Australian and New Zealand/Aotearoa heritage-specific legislation enshrines distinct ascribed values, formed in response to charters presenting heritage philosophies. Recent shifts towa…

  • A Multisensory Puzzle

    Open Access•Murray Parker, Dirk HR Spennemann et al.•ARTICLE•Heritage & Society•2026

    Christmas markets offer a wealth of sensory experiences and historical/cultural value. Whilst sensory experiences may be recognized as heritage if having social value and transmitted intergenerationally, no research has investigated on-site heritage perceptions of the multisensorial Christmas markets experience. This study examined sensory/multisensory experiences and heritage perceptions of five European Christmas markets (Dresden, Mainz, Frankf…

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