Writing
Books
Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age. University of California Press, 2025.
Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015.
Reviews: Canadian Journal of Communication; TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies; CAML Review / Revue de l’ACBM; Literary Review of Canada
Chapters in Books and Edited Collections
Fauteux, Brian. “Campus Radio Music Libraries in the Streaming Media Era.” The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting. Eds. Michele Hilmes and Andrew Bottomley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024: 83 – 102.
Fauteux, Brian. “The Dawson City Music Festival and a Small-town Scene at the Periphery of the Music Industries.” Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes. Ed. Christina Ballico. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 75 – 96.
“The Edufication and Musicalization of Radio: CKUA, ‘Good Music,’ and ‘Uplifting Taste.” Music Radio: Building Communities, Mediating Genres. Eds. Morten Michelsen, Mads Krogh, Steen Kaargaard Nielsen, and Iben Have. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018: 120 – 144.
“Making Do in ‘Weird’ Vancouver: DIY, Underground Venues, and Documenting a Scene.” The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local to the Global. Eds. Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon, and Paula Guerra. Porto: Universidade do Porto, 2017: 209 – 228.
Refereed Articles
Note: For all co-authored and co-edited work listed below, labour is shared equally.
Fauteux, Brian, and Boutros, Alexandra. “Introduction: Sustainable Futures in Popular Music: The Pandemic and Beyond.” MUSICultures 51 (2024): 1 - 8.
Fauteux, Brian, deWaard, Andrew, and Selman, Brianne. “From Copyright Cartels to Commons and Care: A Public Infrastructure Model for Canadian Music Communities.” Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 17.1 (2022): 1 – 23.
Fauteux, Brian, deWaard, Andrew, and Selman, Brianne. “Independent Canadian Music in the Streaming Age: The Sound from Above (Critical Political Economy) and Below (Ethnography of Musicians).” Popular Music and Society 45.3 (2022): 251 – 278.
“Beyond the Branch Plant: Capitol-EMI’s First Canadian Record Press and National Music Industries in the 1970s.” Co-authored with Richard Sutherland and Gregory Taylor. Cultural Studies 36.3 (2022): 428 - 450.
“When the Dial Goes Dylan: ‘Premium’ Radio, Hybrid Authenticity and Theme Time Radio Hour.” Popular Music 39.3-4 (2020): 652 - 658.
“(Residual) Public Music Radio in the Streaming Era: Listening for Diversity and Frequency on CBC Music.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 27.1 (2020): 8 - 24.
“Introduction: Music in the Public Service: Public Radio and Music in the Streaming Era.” Co-authored with Christopher Cwynar. Journal of Radio & Audio Media 27.1 (2020): 4 - 7.
"The Radio Host and Piloted Listening in the Digital Age: CBC Radio 3 and Its Online Listening Community." Journal of Canadian Studies 51.1 (2017): 338 - 361.
"'Songs You Need to Hear': Public Radio Partnerships and the Mobility of National Music." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 15.1 (2017): 47 - 63.
"Satellite Footprint to Cultural Lifelines: Sirius XM and the Circulation of Canadian Content." International Journal of Cultural Policy 22.3 (2016): 313 - 330.
"Blogging Satellite Radio: Podcasting Aesthetics and Sirius XMU's Blog Radio." Journal of Radio & Audio Media 22.2 (2015): 200 - 208.
"Reflections of the Cosmopolitan City: Mapping Arcade Fire's Reflektor and its Intermedia Promotional Campaign." Journal of Popular Music Studies 21.7 (March 2015): 48 - 68.
"Campus Frequencies: 'Alternativeness' and Canadian Campus Radio." Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 6.1 (March 2015): 29 - 46.
"Beyond Campus Borders: Canadian Campus Radio and Community Representation on the FM Dial." Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 11.2 (2013): 137 - 153.
"The Cultural Capital Project: Radical Monetization of the Music Industry." Co-authored with Ian Dahlman and Andrew deWaard. IASPM@Journal 3.1 (2012): 35 - 47.
"'New Noise' versus the Old Sound: Manifestos and The Shape of Punk to Come." Popular Music and Society 35.4 (October 2012): 465 - 482.
"Television, Live 'Transmission:' Control and the Televised Performance Scene." Cinephile 5.2 (Summer 2009): 24 - 29
"The Development of Community Radio in Quebec: The Rise of Community Broadcasting in Late 1960s and Early 1970s Canada." Canadian Journal of Media Studies 3.1 (2008): 131 - 151
Editing
Fauteux, Brian, and Boutros, Alexandra. Special Issue: “Sustainable Futures in Popular Music: The Pandemic and Beyond.” MUSICultures 51 (2024).
Fauteux, Brian, and Cwynar, Christopher. Symposium: “Music in the Public Service: Public Radio and Music in the Streaming Era.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 27.1 (2020).
Public Policy and Government Relations
“Canadian Content Regulations and Funding Support for Artists and Music Communities in the Streaming Media Era.” Comments for Consideration Submitted By: The Cultural Capital Project: Digital Stewardship and Sustainable Monetization for Canadian Musicians. Presented to Department of Canadian Heritage: Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 157, Number 23: Order Issuing Directions to the CRTC (Sustainable and Equitable Broadcasting Regulatory Framework). July 24, 2023.
“The Lack of Competition in the Music Industries, the Effect on Working Musicians, and the Loss of Canadian Music Heritage: A Brief Submitted By: The Cultural Capital Project.” Co-authored with Brianne Selman and Andrew deWaard. A Brief submitted to the Consultation on the Future of Canada’s Competition Policy, ISED Canada. 15 February 2023.
“A User-Centric Case for Rights Reversions and Other Mitigations: The Cultural Capital Project Submission to ISED Consultation on Term Extension.” Co-authored with Brianne Selman (first author) and Andrew deWaard. A Brief submitted to Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada. Consultation on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada. Canada. March 9, 2021.
“Putting Users and Small-Scale Creators First in Canadian Copyright Law and Beyond.” Co-authored with Brianne Selman and Andrew deWaard. Brief Submitted to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Remuneration Models for Artists and Creative Industries. December 10, 2018.
“Putting Users and Small-Scale Creators First in Canadian Copyright Law and Beyond.” Co-authored with Brianne Selman and Andrew deWaard. Brief Submitted to the INDU Statutory Review of the Copyright Act. December 10, 2018.
Submission and Presentation before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage: Renumeration Models for Artists and Creative Industries in the Context of Copyright. Presented on behalf of The Cultural Capital Project with Brianne Selman, University of Winnipeg. House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada. 27 September, 2018.
Reviews
Fauteux, Brian. “Book review of ‘Other Stations Are Shit: Student Radio in Aotearoa New Zealand’ by Matt Mollgaard and Karen Neill and ‘Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio’ by Katherine Rye Jewell.” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 22.1 (2024): 132 – 135.
Fauteux, Brian. “Book review of ‘From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production Under Capitalism’ by Michael Chanan.” Labour / Le Travail 92 (2023): 344-346.
Fauteux, Brian. “Book review of ‘Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s’ by Andrew Burke.” University of Toronto Quarterly 90.3 (2021): 419 – 420.
Fauteux, Brian. “Understanding Media through the American Folk Revival,” a book review of American Folk Music as Tactical Media by Henry Adam Svec. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 43 (2021): 178 – 182.
Fauteux Brian and Martin, Catherine. “JCMS Spotlight: Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting Studies Scholarly Interest Group.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60.4 (Summer 2021): 5 – 8.
Fauteux, Brian. “Book review of ‘Tunes for All?: Music on Danish Radio,’ Eds. Morten Michelsen, Steen Kaargaard Nielsen, Mads Krogh, and Iben Have .”Nordicom Review 40.1 (2019): 144 – 146.
"Book review of 'Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music' by Eric Weisbard." Popular Music 35.1 (2016): 153 - 155
"Book review of 'Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area' by Oliver Wang." IASPM@Journal 5.2 (2015): 79 - 81.
"Book review of 'Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks' by Alexander Russo." Enterprise & Society 14.1 (2013): 226 - 228.
"Book review of 'Fresh at Twenty: An Oral History of Mint Records' by Kaitlin Fontana." IASPM@Journal 3.1 (2012): 95 - 96.
"Book review of 'Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis' by Fred Goodman." Media, Culture & Society 34.1 (2012): 124 - 126.
"Book review of 'Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects, Possibilities' by James Hamilton." The Canadian Journal of Communication 36.2 (2011): 346 - 348.
Online Contributions (Select)
Fauteux, Brian, deWaard, Andrew, and Selman, Brianne. “Junos 2023 Reminds Us How Canadian Content Regulations and Funding Supports Music Across the Country.” The Conversation 9 March 2023
Fauteux, Brian, deWaard, Andrew, and Selman, Brianne. “Artists’ Spotify Criticisms Point to Larger Ways Musicians Lose with Streaming – Here’s 3 Changes to Help in Canada.” The Conversation 21 February 2022
"A Tale of Two Catalogues: The Celestial Jukebox and Campus Radio Library.” Flow Journal 26.08 (June 1, 2020).
"Manufacturing Consent in the Digital Music Industries.” Flow Journal 26.06 (April 6, 2020).
"Advocating on Behalf of Independent Musicians: Copyright Reform and Corporate Consolidation.” Flow Journal 26.03 (November 28, 2019).
"Thinking Through Radio History: An Interview with John Durham Peters." Radio Survivor Part 1 (6 March 2015); Part 2 (March 13, 2015).
"Today's Rich Audio Environment: An Interview with Michele Hilmes." Radio Survivor February 4, 2015.
"On Radio: Live Music Festivals as Satellite Radio's Premium Content?" Antenna Blog 10 June 2014.
"Radio Matters: A Renaissance in Radio Scholarship." Radio Survivor 14 May 2014.
"The Cosmopolitan City and the Carnivalesque in Arcade Fire's Reflektor Campaign." Antenna Blog 1 November 2013.
"On Radio: FM Campus Radio and Community Representation." Antenna Blog 18 January 2013.