Brunt, Shelley

RMIT University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6356-5939
Australia

Dr Shelley Brunt is the Program Manager for the Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry) degree at RMIT University. As a popular music ethnomusicologist, she uses ethnographic approaches to understand the relationships between parenthood and the music industry. Key publications include Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2018) and Popular Music and Parenting (Routledge, 2022). She is the co-editor of Perfect Beat journal.

Contributions

  • Music as Magic
    Articles
    Introduction Music scholarship across genres is often concerned with music's metaphysical and ephemeral effects on individuals, communities, and society. These scholarly framings constitute a concept that we refer to here as “the magic of music”.  Using this framing, this article addresses the ways that the magic is undermined by a range of worldly, non-magical realities, using the...Read more
    M/C Journal Vol. 26 No. 5 (2023): magic