Faculty Member, Arts Music Unit
Senior Lecturer
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
About
My main interest is how institutions shape the ways people consume and make meaning from music. I have most recently completed a study of how music presenters at community radio stations in Australia construct distinct kinds of social relationships with groups of people they see as 'communities' or 'publics'. It will be published in 2012 by Palgrave under the title: Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy. It is a long delayed continuation of work I started in 1994 with my first book: Community Radio and Public Culture (Hampton, 2001).
I've published another book as well, Pop Idols and Pirates (Ashgate, 2008), and articles in a bunch of different journals such as Popular Music, Television and New Media, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Southern Review, Popular Music and Society and Context.
