Brent Keogh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Keogh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Keogh |
| SIGNATURE | KEOGH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1975-4924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Alone together - the affordances of online jazz and improvised music festivals post-pandemic
Amidst the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, musicians confronted the closure of performance spaces and limited institutional support, prompting many to turn to online performances as a means of sustaining their creative practice. This paper examines three such initiatives—The Jazz Social, Earshift Music Festival, and International Improv Fest—to explore how improvisatory values of spontaneity, liveness and interaction intersected with techno…
Jack Johnson’s quiet activism
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is known for his laid back, inoffensive and seemingly uncontroversial music; however (perhaps paradoxically), he is also known for his environmental activism and accountability measures, measures that may seem at odds with his relaxed personality and musical output. In the 2016 short documentary film The Smog of the Sea, Johnson partakes as a citizen scientist in an expedition to the Sargasso Sea. Here he comes to t…
Sonic branding and the aesthetic infrastructure of everyday consumption
Sonic branding - the sonic expression of a brand's identity - is the audio equivalent of a brand's logo, a sound that is both distinct and adaptable to diverse contexts, and serves to communicate a brand's narrative. Sonic branding has been a feature of marketing strategies for the past two decades, but more recently there has been increased commercial interest in sonic branding, a move from the 'visual turn' to the 'sonic turn', as voice activat…
From Here, There and Everywhere: Recording Popular Music in the “Field”
From soundscape studies to ethnomusicology and popular music, the production and study of field recordings is usually framed in terms of their role in archival research, in cultural revivals, and the politics of engaging with the sonic other both “in” and “out” of the field. Few studies, however, have addressed the use of field recordings as a tool for actively constructing authenticity in contemporary global popular music. In the popular music i…
“The Pro Tooling of the World”: Digital Music Production, Democracy and Environmentality
The “Pro Tooling” of the world and the democratization of recording technologies, made possible by the affordances of the internet and technological innovation, have been praised for the ways in which prohibitively expensive production tools have been made available to anyone with an internet connection and a laptop. The echoes of a utopian, perhaps even Marxian, tune can be heard in the positivist accounts of the affordances of such technologies…
Matt Brennan. 2017. When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Matt Brennan. 2017. When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock. New York and London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781501319020 (hbk). 256 pp
Star-spangled 'Shamisen: In search of the Jimi Hendrix of the… [insert instrument here]
A brief internet search of the phrase 'the Jimi Hendrix of...' followed by any instrument (for example, the bass guitar) reveals numerous examples of musicians promoting themselves, being marketed or being reviewed as the 'Jimi Hendrix' of that instrument. While some of the comparisons being made are arguably less tenuous-electric sitar, oud, mandolin-other instruments stretch the analogy. These include the 'Jimi Hendrix' of the bagpipe, clarinet…
Sounds, Swords and Forests: An Exploration into the Representations of Music and Martial Arts in Contemporary Kung Fu Films
In the Wu Xia film Hero (Yimou, 2002), Jet Li's character Nameless ponders mid-combat the connection between the martial arts and music, stating that both wrestle with 'complex chords and rare melodies'.There have been various articulations of the Chinese equivalents to the Medieval Quadrivium, whereby the cultured person is expected to be competent in a select number of artistic and intellectual disciplines.Rather than the four disciplines of th…
An interview with Damian Wright: Flamenco and the discourse of world music in contemporary Australia
In this Riff article, Brent Keogh speaks to Sydney based flamenco guitarist and ARIA award nominee, Damian Wright. The interview discusses Wright’s experiences and perspectives on World Music in Australia. Where much of the academic discourse on World Music focuses on broader theorisation and systemic critiques, the following interview presents experiences and insights from a musician contributing to, and working in, the complex discursive space …
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Sounds, Swords and Forests: An Exploration into the Representations of Music and Martial Arts in Contemporary Kung Fu Films
In the Wu Xia film Hero (Yimou, 2002), Jet Li's character Nameless ponders mid-combat the connection between the martial arts and music, stating that both wrestle with 'complex chords and rare melodies'.There have been various articulations of the Chinese equivalents to the Medieval Quadrivium, whereby the cultured person is expected to be competent in a select number of artistic and intellectual disciplines.Rather than the four disciplines of th…
An interview with Damian Wright: Flamenco and the discourse of world music in contemporary Australia
In this Riff article, Brent Keogh speaks to Sydney based flamenco guitarist and ARIA award nominee, Damian Wright. The interview discusses Wright’s experiences and perspectives on World Music in Australia. Where much of the academic discourse on World Music focuses on broader theorisation and systemic critiques, the following interview presents experiences and insights from a musician contributing to, and working in, the complex discursive space …
Star-spangled 'Shamisen: In search of the Jimi Hendrix of the… [insert instrument here]
A brief internet search of the phrase 'the Jimi Hendrix of...' followed by any instrument (for example, the bass guitar) reveals numerous examples of musicians promoting themselves, being marketed or being reviewed as the 'Jimi Hendrix' of that instrument. While some of the comparisons being made are arguably less tenuous-electric sitar, oud, mandolin-other instruments stretch the analogy. These include the 'Jimi Hendrix' of the bagpipe, clarinet…
From Here, There and Everywhere: Recording Popular Music in the “Field”
From soundscape studies to ethnomusicology and popular music, the production and study of field recordings is usually framed in terms of their role in archival research, in cultural revivals, and the politics of engaging with the sonic other both “in” and “out” of the field. Few studies, however, have addressed the use of field recordings as a tool for actively constructing authenticity in contemporary global popular music. In the popular music i…
“The Pro Tooling of the World”: Digital Music Production, Democracy and Environmentality
The “Pro Tooling” of the world and the democratization of recording technologies, made possible by the affordances of the internet and technological innovation, have been praised for the ways in which prohibitively expensive production tools have been made available to anyone with an internet connection and a laptop. The echoes of a utopian, perhaps even Marxian, tune can be heard in the positivist accounts of the affordances of such technologies…
Matt Brennan. 2017. When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Matt Brennan. 2017. When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock. New York and London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781501319020 (hbk). 256 pp
Sonic branding and the aesthetic infrastructure of everyday consumption
Sonic branding - the sonic expression of a brand's identity - is the audio equivalent of a brand's logo, a sound that is both distinct and adaptable to diverse contexts, and serves to communicate a brand's narrative. Sonic branding has been a feature of marketing strategies for the past two decades, but more recently there has been increased commercial interest in sonic branding, a move from the 'visual turn' to the 'sonic turn', as voice activat…
Jack Johnson’s quiet activism
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is known for his laid back, inoffensive and seemingly uncontroversial music; however (perhaps paradoxically), he is also known for his environmental activism and accountability measures, measures that may seem at odds with his relaxed personality and musical output. In the 2016 short documentary film The Smog of the Sea, Johnson partakes as a citizen scientist in an expedition to the Sargasso Sea. Here he comes to t…
Alone together - the affordances of online jazz and improvised music festivals post-pandemic
Amidst the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, musicians confronted the closure of performance spaces and limited institutional support, prompting many to turn to online performances as a means of sustaining their creative practice. This paper examines three such initiatives—The Jazz Social, Earshift Music Festival, and International Improv Fest—to explore how improvisatory values of spontaneity, liveness and interaction intersected with techno…
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