Lecturer
- About
-
Biography
Hailing from Perth, Western Australia, I research and teach in the field of popular music studies. I am the editor of Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes: Global insights and perspectives (Palgrave, 2021), and the co-editor (alongside Dr Allan Watson) of Music Cities: Evaluating a global cultural policy concept (Palgrave, 2020). I am a Collaborator with the global research NGO Center for Music Ecosystems, and Member-at-Large of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), having also served on the Editorial Board of the IASPM Journal (2019 - 2023). I have undertaken a range of research consultancies for music advocacy bodies and state government arts' departments in my native Australia and was the Research Fellow (2016 - 2019) on the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, Making Music Work: Sustainable portfolio careers for Australian musicians (LP 150100497).
My research is primarily focused on examining the structure and function of place-based music industries and scenes, including their associated career, business, and infrastructure development, and music-related urban governance. In turn, it considers the role of music in creative and cultural cities paradigms - including the music cities concept and the emergent music ecosystems framework - and places a strong focus on the influences of locality, particularly geographical isolation and peripherality, on the ways in which music industries and scenes function.
I am currently writing a manuscript for the Bloomsbury 33 1/3 Oceania series on The Triffids' breathtaking 1986 album Born Sandy Devotional, while continuing to expand on my research agenda in music's relationship to place. This includes upcoming research and publishing projects exploring the capacity for arts and cultural engagement within chronourbanist frameworks, and the place-specific impacts of creative and cultural cities frameworks and associated initiatives.
External Memberships
Member-at-Large, International Association for the Study of Popular Music: 2023 - Present
Collaborator, Center for Music Ecosystems: 2021 - Present
Editorial Board Member, IASPM Journal: 2019 - 2023
- Publications
-
Page 1 of 3 Results 1 to 10 of 28
The Portfolio Music Career: Understanding the Australian experience.
The Intellect Handbook of Global Music Industries. Anderton, C., James, M., Nordgård, D., Pisfil, S. (eds.). Intellect Ltd.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Taking music to the (museum) masses: The materiality of the country music and grunge histories in Nashville and Seattle.
New Geographies of Music 2:: Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Politics, and Place-Making.. Johansson, O., Guillard, S., Palis, J. (eds.). Palgrave MacmillanChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Capacity building and professional development in contemporary music careers: An Australian contemporary music case study
International Journal of Music EducationContributions to Journals: Articles‘Cities’
M/C Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 1-6Contributions to Journals: EditorialsMusic cities or cities of music?
Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals.. Anderton, C., Pisfil, S. (eds.). Routledge, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367405038
You get to know the scene inside out, but the cost of travel is a burden: The impacts of isolation and peripherality on the contemporary music scene of Perth, Western Australia.
Geographically isolated and peripheral music scenes: Global insights and perspectives.. Ballico, C. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-53, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes: Global Insights and Perspectives
Books and Reports- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4581-5
Eco-friendly practices and pro-environmental behaviours: the Australian folk and world music festival perspective.
Arts and the Market, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 76-91Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/AAM-10-2020-0046
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Caught in the act: the impact of liquor regulation on original live music activity in Perth, Western Australia
International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 394-408Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1766450
A long way to the top: Australian musicians balance multiple roles to make their careers work.
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
