Dr Shane Homan
- BA Hons I (UWS) PhD (Macquarie)
- Senior Lecturer
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Background
Shane Homan teaches in media and cultural studies. His research and publications in popular music studies over the past ten years have focused upon the Australian and global music industries and cultural industries policy. He has published three books and many journal articles in journals such as Media International Australia, the Journal of Youth Studies and the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and also provides the ‘Popular Music’ chapter in The Media and Communications in Australia edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner. He is also interested in popular cultural histories and the circulation of cultural memory within popular media.
Shane has authored and co-authored commissioned reports and submissions on the Australian live music industry, copyright structures and music content on Australian public television. His research has provoked music industry reform in the areas of music venue regulation, nightclubs and performer copyright structures.
He is currently leading an international research team on the Australian Research Council funded project, Policy Notes: Local Popular Music in Global Creative Economies (2009-2011). This project investigates past and future policy challenges for the music industries located in Scotland, New Zealand and Australia.
Shane has served as General Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music; as a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network; and as a member of the Music Council of Australia. He is a member of the Social Aesthetics Research Unit at Monash. In 2004 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool.
Research interests
- Popular music industries and policy
- Cultural industries theory and practice
- Media policy
- Cultural history
- Australian media and popular culture history
- Youth and popular music
Monash courses
- Australian Media Histories (year 2 and 3)
- Music, Media, Culture (Honours and Masters level)
Monash conferences convenor
- 2010 – IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) Australia-New Zealand conference
- 2009 – Collaborations: Creative Partnerships in Music, Social Aesthetics Research Unit, 4-6 June (with Peter Murphy)
Selected Publications
Books
(with Mitchell, T) Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia, Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 2008.
Access All Eras: Tribute Bands & Pop Culture, Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2007.
The Mayor’s A Square: Live Music and Law and Order in Sydney, Local Consumption Publications, 2003
Reports
(with Johnson, B) Vanishing Acts: an inquiry into the state of live popular music opportunities in NSW, Australia Council & NSW Ministry of Arts, Sydney, 2003. Available online from the ACA.
Edited Journals
(with Gibson, C) ‘Popular Music: Networks, Industries and Spaces’ issue, Media International Australia, n123, May, 2007.
(with Huber, A & Baker, S) Popular Music issue of Youth Studies Australia, v22 n2, June, 2003.