Catherine Strong

Associate Professor Catherine Strong

Associate Professor

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Details

College: School of Media & Communication
Department: School - Media & Communication
Campus: City Campus Australia
catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au

ORCID: 0000-0001-6788-8399

Open to

Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Catherine is a sociologist who specialises in popular music studies. She has close connections to industry, and has worked on projects relating to working conditions in music, gender inequalities in music making, and popular music as history and heritage.

Supervisor projects

The self-referential popstar; authenticity, irony and stardom.
8 Jan 2024

Gendered implications and expectations for women and gender-diverse rock instrumentalists in the Australian music industry.
10 Jan 2023

A Political Ethnography of the Melbourne Punk and Post-Punk Underground
10 Jan 2023

How does Triple M Radio mediate, curate, and uphold the culture of dad rock in Australia?
17 Jun 2022

Baiyiya: Music and Identity in First Nations
1 May 2022

Beyond Fandom: Pathways for creative careers for pop music fans
17 Dec 2020

“Cheerful Young Phonies”: Humour and Hegemony in Glam Metal Music
13 Dec 2018

Digital Cumbia: The Role of DJs/Producers in Creolization
4 Jun 2018

"For Freaks and Others": Examining Queerness and its Significance in Popular Music of the 21st Century
1 Feb 2018

"You're Not Strangers If You Like the Same Band": Small Venues, Music Scenes, and the Live Music Ecology
5 Jun 2017

Hypersonic Music: Determining New Musical Experiences in the Parametric Acoustic Array
30 Aug 2016

“Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will”: Band Tattoos, Gendered Bodies, and New Forms of Archiving in the Hardcore Scene
22 Feb 2016

Teaching interests

Supervisor interests
Popular music, Gender, Collective memory, Popular culture heritage

Research interests

Cultural Studies, Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Sociology, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Policy and Administration, Political Science