Hannah Fairlamb
PhD
Hannah Fairlamb is a third year PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, studying grassroots music-related gender equality activism and its interface with Australian DIY music scenes. Co-founder and former co-director of feminist community music initiative Girls Rock! Adelaide, Hannah is herself a musician with over 20 years' experience in the independent music making community.
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Thesis
Grassroots gender equality initiatives and Australian DIY music
My research seeks to understand the ways in which gender and gender equality are viewed in Australian DIY music scenes; and how it is worked for by those that undertake this labour. As a person who has done this kind of work myself I am interested to see how others in Australian DIY music scenes see this work, and how important they see it as being. I am also interested in views on who is seen as responsible for this work, and who actually does this work. While DIY music is often seen as an anti-establishment, anti-mainstream form of cultural production, I ask whether this is the case or whether broader societal structures are reproduced and reinforced in these scenes.