Shelley Brunt is a retired cellist and chorister, and performed as a guitarist, keyboardist, and singer in bands in 1990s–2000s, and later as a gamelan and taiko performer in the 2010s. She was the editor of Perfect Beat magazine.
She has been the program manager for the BA (Music Industry) degree at RMIT and a senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communication (RIMT). As a popular music ethnomusicologist, Shelley focuses on ethnographic approaches to examining music cultures in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and a BA Hons (both from the University of Adelaide).
Source: https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/b/brunt-dr-shelley
Australian Writing and Rock Music affiliation: journalist, guitar, vocals.