Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
Biographic Data
| ID | 656600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brydie-Leigh Bartleet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brydie-Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartleet |
| SIGNATURE | BARTLEET B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4346-780X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Health determinant effects of audience experiences at live First Nations music events in Central Australia
OBJECTIVES: First Nations musicians often describe live performance as a means of fostering social, cultural, and political change that shapes determinants of health (DoH) for First Nations Peoples. This study examined how audience experiences of First Nations live music events in Central Australia may influence those DoH - including intercultural understanding, social cohesion, and community wellbeing - and explored the durability of such effect…
Community music as health promotion: Equity-related insights from urban context in Australia
Health promotion researchers and practitioners the world over are grappling with how to tackle growing health inequity. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (Ottawa Charter) provides a framework for addressing inequity from an intersectoral, strengths-based, and social justice approach; yet this framework continues to be underutilized. Similarly, evidence suggests creative arts can support positive health and well-being but the potential for t…
An analytic device for exploring the relationship between micro- and macro-outcomes in community music
This article considers how community music practitioners can conceptualize and describe the dynamic relationship between micro- and macro-outcomes in their work. Building on Bartleet’s framework for social impact in community music, we consider how the small- to large-scale outcomes in community music practices exist in deeply interrelated ways. As this article is in a Special Issue on practitioner perspectives, we offer insights from a four-year…
Play On: Storying a global conversation on urgent issues of community-engaged practice and research
This article documents the project Play On , a series of online curated conversations held between community arts practitioners and researchers based in Ireland and Australia. The Play On series featured contributions from community musicians and artists, researchers, activists and Elders. Together, we considered the challenges and opportunities we encountered in our work and discussed how we might respond to urgent issues impacting our field, ou…
Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: Insights from the lullaby project’s international convening
Carnegie Hall's Lullaby Project seeks to harness the power of music and lullabies to enhance perinatal care, strengthen family bonds, and foster individual and community well-being. In 2024, its annual Lullaby Convening brought together an international community of musicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, and community partners to explore how the Lullaby Project supports health, social equity, and vulnerable populations through the univ…
Building social connection and inclusion through rock music in the Western Balkans: Fostering the art of small changes
This article explores community-based rock music education as a site for strengthening social cohesion in a context of postwar, interethnic divisions. Focusing on small and incremental changes, it examines the practices of Music Connects, a project in the Western Balkans, and its goals of revitalizing rock culture in support of a more inclusive social life and greater freedom of movement in the region. The article explores the ways that an organi…
Community music for critical positive youth development: A cross-disciplinary literature review of implications for addressing social inequity
Critical positive youth development (CPYD) is a promising framework for supporting young people in strengths-based ways to both thrive individually and address structural foundations of social inequity. This literature review explores community music for operationalizing CPYD. Database searches were supplemented with expert consultation and handsearching of identified articles and key journals. The authors used a purposive sampling strategy withi…
Music Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational First Nations Musical Practices as Cultural Determinants of Health
This article reports on promising pilot research which indicates that intergenerational musical practices in diverse First Nations families and communities in Vanuatu and Australia can shape cultural determinants of health (CDoH). We contend that such strength- and culture-based approaches to health promotion may help to disrupt colonial and deficit constructions of First Nations People and our health and wellbeing. The pilot study used Indigenis…
Can Community Music Contribute to More Equitable Societies? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
This article presents outcomes from a critical interpretive synthesis inquiry exploring whether community music can contribute to more equitable societies. Drawing on 74 cross-disciplinary articles, we identify equity-related outcomes across three key categories: outcomes to improve the immediate wellbeing and life trajectories for individuals experiencing disadvantage; outcomes relating to the development of skills, knowledge and understandings …
First Nations music as a determinant of health in Australia and Vanuatu: Political and economic determinants
This article reports on findings that indicate how First Nations musical activities function as cultural determinants of health. Drawing on early findings from a 3-year Australian Research Council funded project titled The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health, we detail Australian and Ni Vanuatu First Nations musicians’ reported outcomes of musical activity using a First Nations cultural determinants of health framework.…
The ethics of being an editor–researcher
Although only a few months old at press time, ChatGPT has already established itself as one of the biggest disruptors of historical conceptions of authorship, reality and trust. The research community will no doubt face increasing challenges as it attempts to deal with peer review, conflicts-of-interest and publishing ethics. Readers may know that the International Journal of Community Music is a Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) member. COP…
A conceptual framework for understanding and articulating the social impact of community music
This article outlines a conceptual framework for sharpening how we understand and articulate the social impact of community music. Frequently community music programmes speak about bold social impact intentions, especially in areas relating to social justice, with little explanation about the processes that could lead to such changes and patchy details about the extent to which those changes have actually occurred. This is not to say these progra…
Exploring the role of place‐based arts initiatives in addressing social inequity in Australia: A systematic review
The arts remain largely absent from place‐based policy, planning and programming in Australia, despite a long history of working in place‐based ways to create positive social change in communities. This systematic review aimed to address this absence, by providing a synthesis of evidence about the role that place‐based arts can play in advancing social equity and addressing social disadvantage. Findings reveal a potential for the arts to create c…
The role of Australian First Nations’ Knowledges and the arts in “inclusive” regional and remote development: A narrative review
Help is on its Way: Exploring the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of a Massed Community Choir Program
This paper addresses gaps in our understanding about the mental health and wellbeing outcomes fostered by community choirs at scale
The social impact of music making
An ecological approach to mapping remote creative practices: Insights from an Australian Desert region
There is increasing recognition that the creative arts sector has a crucial role to play in supporting and sustaining communities in remote contexts. However, there are still major gaps in understanding how this sector functions in such settings, and few resources to support the design and delivery of arts research in these contexts. To help address these gaps, this article draws on findings from a three-year project, Creative Barkly, the first s…
Integrating music and sound into efforts to advance the sustainable development goals in the Asia-Pacific: Case studies from Indonesia, Vanuatu and Australia
Although UNESCO has a stated aim to incorporate culture into all development policies, culturally integrated approaches to realising the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are arguably yet to gain widespread traction. Focusing on cultural practices relating to music and sound, this article explores the role of culture and cultural policy in advancing the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific, through three case studies. In Indonesia, a …
Global mobility in music higher education: Reflections on how intercultural music-making can enhance students’ musical practices and identities
Music higher education institutions are increasingly recognising the educational value of intercultural learning experiences. Delivering such learning experiences in a way that provides music students with a rich cultural and musical learning experience, rather than a superficial one, can be a challenging task, particularly in the case of short-term ‘mobility’ or ‘study-abroad’ programmes. This article explores ways to address this challenge by r…
Desert Harmony: Exploring the Cultural, Social, and Economic Value of a Multi-Arts Festival in the Remote Barkly Region
This article examines the role that the arts sector plays in supporting and sustaining communities in one of Australia’s remotest regions, the Barkly (Northern Territory). Drawing on findings from a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage project, ‘Creative Barkly’, the article outlines how artistic and creative activities in very remote regions, such as the Barkly, constitute significant cultural, social, and economic value. To illustrate…
Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives
Service learning with First Peoples: A framework to support respectful and reciprocal learning
This article outlines a framework for working with First Peoples. The framework supports respectful and mutually beneficial learning partnerships and culminates from 6 years of practice and research in arts-based service learning with Aboriginal communities in Australia. We begin by looking at synergies between global service learning and service learning with First Peoples. We then position this work within an international context, focusing on …
How concepts of love can inform empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts
This article explores how concepts of love, in particular compassionate love, can provide a way of promoting empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts. Drawing on the work of Deborah Bird Rose and bell hooks, it considers how love is first and foremost a verb, a participatory emotion and a social practice that can both inform and underpin efforts at building connections with others through music. The article then seeks to…
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music captures the vibrant, dynamic, and diverse approaches that characterize community music across the world. The chapters give a comprehensive review of achievements in the field to date, providing a ‘go-to’ volume that both deepens our understanding of what community music does and what it might become. The Handbook also looks to the future and charts new areas that are likely to define the field in the coming…
Community Music Interventions in Post-Conflict Contexts
This chapter discusses the phenomenon of community-based music interventions in sites affected by violent war and conflict. The author proposes a typology of four broad fields of intention (Music Education, Cultural Regeneration, Social Development, and Healing, Health, and Well-being) that underpin many of the music interventions documented in scholarly literature thus far. This is followed with an application of the typology to an early exempla…
Behind the Baton: Exploring Autoethnographic Writing in a Musical Context
In this article, the author considers how music can expand the creative possibilities of autoethnography. Likewise, the author explores how autoethnography can offer musicians a means to reflect on their creative work in culturally insightful ways. To "play out" these disciplinary considerations, the author crafts an autoethnographic narrative that centers on her own creative practice as a conductor. Moving between description and action, dialogu…
How concepts of love can inform empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts
This article explores how concepts of love, in particular compassionate love, can provide a way of promoting empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts. Drawing on the work of Deborah Bird Rose and bell hooks, it considers how love is first and foremost a verb, a participatory emotion and a social practice that can both inform and underpin efforts at building connections with others through music. The article then seeks to…
Friendship as research: Exploring the potential of sisterhood and personal relationships as the foundations of musicological and ethnographic fieldwork
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the individual music research projects the authors were working on in Borroloola, Northern Territory of Australia, and the ways in which the lived and inter‐subjective concepts of sisterhood and friendship strengthened the authors’ shared experiences in the field and became the foundations of their method. Design/methodology/approach Through an auto‐ethnographic and inter‐subjective narrative approa…
Can Community Music Contribute to More Equitable Societies? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
This article presents outcomes from a critical interpretive synthesis inquiry exploring whether community music can contribute to more equitable societies. Drawing on 74 cross-disciplinary articles, we identify equity-related outcomes across three key categories: outcomes to improve the immediate wellbeing and life trajectories for individuals experiencing disadvantage; outcomes relating to the development of skills, knowledge and understandings …
Integrating music and sound into efforts to advance the sustainable development goals in the Asia-Pacific: Case studies from Indonesia, Vanuatu and Australia
Although UNESCO has a stated aim to incorporate culture into all development policies, culturally integrated approaches to realising the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are arguably yet to gain widespread traction. Focusing on cultural practices relating to music and sound, this article explores the role of culture and cultural policy in advancing the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific, through three case studies. In Indonesia, a …
Sound Links: Exploring the social, cultural and educational dynamics of musical communities in Australia
Sound Links examines the dynamics of community music in Australia, and the models it represents for informal music learning and teaching. This involves researching a selection of vibrant musical communities across the country, exploring their potential for complementarity and synergy with music in schools. This article focuses on the most significant themes that have emerged from the author's recent Sound Links fieldwork in four musical communiti…
Narrative Soundings: 3Rd International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music and Education (Nime3) November 24 — 27, 2010 School of Music The University of Queensland St Lucia, Brisbane Queensland,…
Behind the Baton: Exploring Autoethnographic Writing in a Musical Context
In this article, the author considers how music can expand the creative possibilities of autoethnography. Likewise, the author explores how autoethnography can offer musicians a means to reflect on their creative work in culturally insightful ways. To "play out" these disciplinary considerations, the author crafts an autoethnographic narrative that centers on her own creative practice as a conductor. Moving between description and action, dialogu…
Connections in China: Harmonizing stories of community music from around the world
In this article the author offers a personal reflection on the 12th seminar of the ISME Commission for Community Music Activity in Hangzhou, China, 2010. She gives summaries of all the presentation topics, as well as personal narrative accounts of her experiences at the seminar. These reflective descriptions bring the seminar to life for the reader and also tease out some of the cultural dimensions to the Commission's time in China. As such the a…
Music as a tool for social transformation: A dedication to the life and work of Steve Dillon (20 March 1953–1 April 2012)
This article celebrates the life and work of Australian musician and educator Steve Dillon (20 March 1953–1 April 2012). It focuses on the most significant pedagogical and philosophical ideas that informed his community music practice, and illustrates these concepts with examples from his work with the Sweet Freedom, Accessible Interactions, DIScoveringABILITIES, jam2jam and One Laptop Per Child projects. In particular, the article focuses on Ste…
Friendship as research: Exploring the potential of sisterhood and personal relationships as the foundations of musicological and ethnographic fieldwork
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the individual music research projects the authors were working on in Borroloola, Northern Territory of Australia, and the ways in which the lived and inter‐subjective concepts of sisterhood and friendship strengthened the authors’ shared experiences in the field and became the foundations of their method. Design/methodology/approach Through an auto‐ethnographic and inter‐subjective narrative approa…
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music captures the vibrant, dynamic, and diverse approaches that characterize community music across the world. The chapters give a comprehensive review of achievements in the field to date, providing a ‘go-to’ volume that both deepens our understanding of what community music does and what it might become. The Handbook also looks to the future and charts new areas that are likely to define the field in the coming…
Community Music Interventions in Post-Conflict Contexts
This chapter discusses the phenomenon of community-based music interventions in sites affected by violent war and conflict. The author proposes a typology of four broad fields of intention (Music Education, Cultural Regeneration, Social Development, and Healing, Health, and Well-being) that underpin many of the music interventions documented in scholarly literature thus far. This is followed with an application of the typology to an early exempla…
Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives
Service learning with First Peoples: A framework to support respectful and reciprocal learning
This article outlines a framework for working with First Peoples. The framework supports respectful and mutually beneficial learning partnerships and culminates from 6 years of practice and research in arts-based service learning with Aboriginal communities in Australia. We begin by looking at synergies between global service learning and service learning with First Peoples. We then position this work within an international context, focusing on …
How concepts of love can inform empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts
This article explores how concepts of love, in particular compassionate love, can provide a way of promoting empathy and conciliation in intercultural community music contexts. Drawing on the work of Deborah Bird Rose and bell hooks, it considers how love is first and foremost a verb, a participatory emotion and a social practice that can both inform and underpin efforts at building connections with others through music. The article then seeks to…
Global mobility in music higher education: Reflections on how intercultural music-making can enhance students’ musical practices and identities
Music higher education institutions are increasingly recognising the educational value of intercultural learning experiences. Delivering such learning experiences in a way that provides music students with a rich cultural and musical learning experience, rather than a superficial one, can be a challenging task, particularly in the case of short-term ‘mobility’ or ‘study-abroad’ programmes. This article explores ways to address this challenge by r…
Desert Harmony: Exploring the Cultural, Social, and Economic Value of a Multi-Arts Festival in the Remote Barkly Region
This article examines the role that the arts sector plays in supporting and sustaining communities in one of Australia’s remotest regions, the Barkly (Northern Territory). Drawing on findings from a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage project, ‘Creative Barkly’, the article outlines how artistic and creative activities in very remote regions, such as the Barkly, constitute significant cultural, social, and economic value. To illustrate…
The social impact of music making
An ecological approach to mapping remote creative practices: Insights from an Australian Desert region
There is increasing recognition that the creative arts sector has a crucial role to play in supporting and sustaining communities in remote contexts. However, there are still major gaps in understanding how this sector functions in such settings, and few resources to support the design and delivery of arts research in these contexts. To help address these gaps, this article draws on findings from a three-year project, Creative Barkly, the first s…
Integrating music and sound into efforts to advance the sustainable development goals in the Asia-Pacific: Case studies from Indonesia, Vanuatu and Australia
Although UNESCO has a stated aim to incorporate culture into all development policies, culturally integrated approaches to realising the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are arguably yet to gain widespread traction. Focusing on cultural practices relating to music and sound, this article explores the role of culture and cultural policy in advancing the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific, through three case studies. In Indonesia, a …
The role of Australian First Nations’ Knowledges and the arts in “inclusive” regional and remote development: A narrative review
Help is on its Way: Exploring the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of a Massed Community Choir Program
This paper addresses gaps in our understanding about the mental health and wellbeing outcomes fostered by community choirs at scale
First Nations music as a determinant of health in Australia and Vanuatu: Political and economic determinants
This article reports on findings that indicate how First Nations musical activities function as cultural determinants of health. Drawing on early findings from a 3-year Australian Research Council funded project titled The Remedy Project: First Nations Music as a Determinant of Health, we detail Australian and Ni Vanuatu First Nations musicians’ reported outcomes of musical activity using a First Nations cultural determinants of health framework.…
The ethics of being an editor–researcher
Although only a few months old at press time, ChatGPT has already established itself as one of the biggest disruptors of historical conceptions of authorship, reality and trust. The research community will no doubt face increasing challenges as it attempts to deal with peer review, conflicts-of-interest and publishing ethics. Readers may know that the International Journal of Community Music is a Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) member. COP…
A conceptual framework for understanding and articulating the social impact of community music
This article outlines a conceptual framework for sharpening how we understand and articulate the social impact of community music. Frequently community music programmes speak about bold social impact intentions, especially in areas relating to social justice, with little explanation about the processes that could lead to such changes and patchy details about the extent to which those changes have actually occurred. This is not to say these progra…
Exploring the role of place‐based arts initiatives in addressing social inequity in Australia: A systematic review
The arts remain largely absent from place‐based policy, planning and programming in Australia, despite a long history of working in place‐based ways to create positive social change in communities. This systematic review aimed to address this absence, by providing a synthesis of evidence about the role that place‐based arts can play in advancing social equity and addressing social disadvantage. Findings reveal a potential for the arts to create c…
Building social connection and inclusion through rock music in the Western Balkans: Fostering the art of small changes
This article explores community-based rock music education as a site for strengthening social cohesion in a context of postwar, interethnic divisions. Focusing on small and incremental changes, it examines the practices of Music Connects, a project in the Western Balkans, and its goals of revitalizing rock culture in support of a more inclusive social life and greater freedom of movement in the region. The article explores the ways that an organi…
Community music for critical positive youth development: A cross-disciplinary literature review of implications for addressing social inequity
Critical positive youth development (CPYD) is a promising framework for supporting young people in strengths-based ways to both thrive individually and address structural foundations of social inequity. This literature review explores community music for operationalizing CPYD. Database searches were supplemented with expert consultation and handsearching of identified articles and key journals. The authors used a purposive sampling strategy withi…
Music Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational First Nations Musical Practices as Cultural Determinants of Health
This article reports on promising pilot research which indicates that intergenerational musical practices in diverse First Nations families and communities in Vanuatu and Australia can shape cultural determinants of health (CDoH). We contend that such strength- and culture-based approaches to health promotion may help to disrupt colonial and deficit constructions of First Nations People and our health and wellbeing. The pilot study used Indigenis…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Music Therapy and Health (7 works) · Music History and Culture (6 works)