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Ben Green

@bengreenfuz.bsky.social
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Researching music & society | MIRC www.musicindustryresearch.com | RMIT www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/g/ben-green | TASA Sociology of Music www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx?page_i… | views my own

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"If the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what?" Emmett Rensin explores the moral reckoning of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young”: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangero…
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"The genocide in Gaza is a defining ethical test for the global public health community, social scientists, and academic associations." - Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza, @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
When @bengreenfuz.bsky.social‬ and I wrote our chapter for this great collection on Pub Rock, Amyl and The Sniffers were an up and coming band just about to release their second record... academic publishing eh! Unlikely to see them play in a pub these days... www.routledge.com/Pub-Rock-in-...
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Discussing changes to how the ARIA Charts are compiled, with @hellharpy.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-aria-cha...
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The ARIA charts are about to undergo a big change. It could be a boost for local artists
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album has been in the Top 50 albums chart for more than 400 weeks – but it won’t be there for much longer.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Grateful for this important work. Such analyses are great resources for teaching in media and communication. Further evidence the plummeting public trust in media and government, while tragic, is (1) rational and (2) cause for hope.
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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 21/05/2025
The International Sociological Association (ISA) has been concerned for some time and condemned the acts of violence that have occurred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The VMDO Music Data & Insights Summit is next week, with support from RMIT's Music Industry Research Collective. I'll present an 'Australian live music research roundup' - sharing highlights from a wealth of recent studies and reports. www.vmdo.com.au/events/music...
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Music Data & Insights Summit
The summit will bring together local and international industry representatives and researchers to unpack recent trends, studies and best practice.
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People's History of Australia @peopleshistoryau.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
On this day 8 April 1972, workers constructing the Sydney Opera House ejected management from the site and began running it themselves. With no bosses in the way, workers' job satisfaction soared, and the workers won huge wage increases, reduced working hours, and improved conditions.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Revisited this review – still mad 😅 and see the title was adopted for SRB's anthology. Are working-class characters allowed to be exceptional, or bound to exemplify grim statistics? Are middle-class stories judged as sociology texts? Love, an autodidact sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/crit...
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Critic Swallows Book | Sydney Review of Books
To call into question the literary value of Dalton’s fiction is not to disqualify the pleasure and imaginative release that hundreds of thousands of readers have found in his novels, especially Boy Sw...
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New article (open access) on the history of unionism among live musicians, in US, UK, Australia. With live music in the spotlight, there's an underrepresentation of the specific, collective interests of musicians as workers. Not always. How did it happen? (1/2) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Musicians’ Unions and Live Music: Historical and Contemporary Challenges in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
This article explores factors in the historical decline of musicians’ unionism in live popular music in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and links these factors to contemporary...
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Art doesn't "bring us together" by reducing the scope of discourse to what's agreed by all. Art is where both difference and solidarity are expressed and explored, an endlessly prolonged debate that is crucial for democracy and humanity. That's how art brings us together.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I spoke with @spencerhowson.bsky.social on ABC Brisbane about the rise of "day clubbing" as people look to extend and expand music's place in their lives, and industry responds. (Last 10 mins) We ended on earlier live gigs. I prefer late, post-parent duties - but this seems unpopular...?
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Saturday Breakfast - ABC listen
Saturday Breakfast offers a mix of news, current affairs and weather.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I spoke with Courtney Kruk at @brisbanetimes.bsky.social about men assaulting and harassing women at an Amyl & the Sniffers show, of all places. Excellent investigation and important voices here. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
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Amyl and the Sniffers respond as fans complain of harassment at Brisbane show
Twenty-year-old fan Ameya was abused, despite the band warning the audience to keep their hands to themselves. Others saw women preyed upon. Music industry insiders lament that it happens all the time...
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New book review - Streaming Sounds: Musical Listening in the Digital Age by Michael James Walsh 👍👍 In the Journal of Sociology @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book cover of "Streaming Sounds: Musical Listening in the Digital Age". The cover image is a number of brightly coloured silhouettes of people's heads, each wearing headphones
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Who employs the most musicians?🧵 TIL the US Army is the world's largest employer of musicians- some 6,500. For context, they're nearly largest employer full stop (after Indian MoD). But I expect other occupations (cleaning, catering) might be outsourced (?) while musicians are enlisted. (1/3)
US Army job listing for "Musician 42R". A highlighted passage says "largest employer of musicians in the world".
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Just picturing Žižek going gaga for this scene in the new Squid Game (and for good reason)
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"we received, almost immediately, an apology from the organisers. The directive, they explained, had not originated from the staff, but had been circulated without their knowledge by someone in management. We should ignore the ban, they said."
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A deeper dive into this test of live music planning laws, and the broader issues, with a range of voices. I'm happy to be included. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Brisbane live music venue the Triffid seeks its day in court as Powderfinger star takes on developer
Legal battle could shape future of live music as nightlife tsar John Collins fights for protection from noise complaints
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Brisbane's Spotify Wrapped results are distinguished by a taste for country music. I spoke to @brisbanetimes.bsky.social about this, and the sadly low showing of Australian artists in our national results www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
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River city streaming: Brisbane really is a big country (music) town
When it comes to Spotify, the music heard in Brisbane is notably different to that played in other Australian cities.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Australian PM shared his Spotify Wrapped, and News Corp headlines gloat that he's been 'slammed' (that bellicose cliché) on X for such frivolity. I'm reminded of something former PM Paul Keating said, which I wrote about a few years ago. peakmusicexperiences.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/p...
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Paul Keating: Politics and emotional events
The announcement that the Australian government will no longer have an explicitly-named department or ministry for “arts” or “culture” brought to mind this characteristic qu…
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I spoke with @nedhammond.bsky.social at ABC about a music venue's appeal against a new development. The Triffid is protected by all Brisbane has - a Special Entertainment Precinct and an Amplified Music Venue Permit - so this is a case of putting them to the test. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Brisbane music venue co-owned by former Powderfinger bassist appeals tower development approval
The operators of a Brisbane music venue are appealing the approval of a residential development, citing concerns about an uptick in noise complaints.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New publication: 'Youth Broadcasting and Music Festivals in Australia', with Ian Rogers, in the Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia. We explore what happened in the 1990s - the tandem rise of youth music media (esp Triple J) and all-ages festivals. 1/3 www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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Youth Broadcasting and Music Festivals in Australia (Chapter 23) - The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia - November 2024
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"All the English groups Act like peasants with free milk" - The Fall, 'CnCs Mithering' Recently I realised an angle to this much-cited lyric that I don't think I've seen mentioned. (The Annotated Fall website is down.) Peasants, famously, produce milk through their labour.
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TV DiSKO @tvdisko.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Author's copies of the Boodle book arrived today. This brings me joy. I read it last night. Found a typo. But I'm proud of this and it means a lot to me to have this out in the world, a book about one of New Zealand's best and my favourite NZ band and their landmark Boodle EP.
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Ben Green @bengreenfuz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have found starter packs very helpful in finding my way on Bluesky. I will share a few, including this first one I've joined. Like anyone, I've got a few intersecting interests - mine include sociology, music, culture, youth, policy...
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Now live on Beat Connection: @tyburr.bsky.social's great Television/Tom Verlaine "Marquee Moon" guitar-solo supercut. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc102-tele...
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BC102 - Television and Tom Verlaine, mixed by Ty Burr: Marquee Moons 1974-2019 (YouTube, November 22)
Starkly lit black-and-white can be every bit as hallucinatory as projected color oil blobs
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