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(Masters and PhD level)
The DCMS is a leading centre of contemporary music research. Since the Department's inception in 1999 over thirty students have successfully completed PhD and Masters qualifications and eighteen more are in-progress.
Students have completed research doctorates in topics as diverse as the music history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Sydney's dance club scene and Sri Lankan baila music. Other students have combined creative projects and abbreviated theses, addressing areas such as jazz guitar improvisation, experimental electronica and chamber opera production.
The strength of the postgraduate research program reflects the success of the Department's academic staff in gaining national and international recognition for publishing and recording projects and in securing prestigious grant awards (such as the two ARC Discovery projects currently based in the DCMS).
The Department has recently further expanded its research expertise throught he apointment of specialist Dance and Vocal Studies supervisors and would welcome applications to study in these fields.
Featured Profiles:
Current Posgraduate Research Topics:
|| PhD
-Australian Blues History
-Australian Modal Jazz
-Composing Music for Bharatnatyam
-Dance Films as Musical Genres
-Digital Musical Performance
-The Goth Genre of Rock Music
-Opera Composer Luscombe Searelle
-Popular Music Recording
-L'ottava isola
-Sub-genres of the Hollywood Musical
-Tawiwanese Buddhist choirs
-Thai Popular Music: Luuk Tung and the Triumph of Isan Culture
-The Work of Jazz Guitarist Jim Raney
|| MA
-Contemporary Sephardic Music
-The Place of the Drone in Music: A Survey of Instruments and Voice
-The Work of Electronic Duo Autechre
-Non-Traditional Congregational Song
Dr Philip Hayward has supervised over 25 doctoral and Masters candidates to completion in the period 1996-2008 and has also written and edited fourteen books on aspects of music and popular culture, including, most recently Off The Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema (2004), Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands (2006) and Terror Tracks: Sound, Music and Horror Cinema (forthcoming, 2008).
He was founding editor of the refereed journal Perfect Beat, which he co-edited until 2002, and in 2007 he founded a new publication entitled Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. He is also network convenor of the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative and director of the Island Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University.
Dr Hayward is active as a researcher in the areas of Asia-Pacific musics, island cultures and film soundtracks and currently holds two ARC Discovery Grants on these topics: (1) The Melanesian Music Industries (jointly with Dr Denis Crowdy) and (2) Contemporary Australian Feature Film Music (jointly with Dr Rebecca Coyle and Dr Michael Hannan).
Outside of university he is active in rainforest restoration in far north New South Wales and is developing research interests in this area.
Dr Philip Hayward has supervised over 25 doctoral and Masters candidates to completion in the period 1996-2008 and has also written and edited fourteen books on aspects of music and popular culture, including, most recently Off The Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema (2004), Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands (2006) and Terror Tracks: Sound, Music and Horror Cinema (forthcoming, 2008).
He was founding editor of the refereed journal Perfect Beat, which he co-edited until 2002, and in 2007 he founded a new publication entitled Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. He is also network convenor of the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative and director of the Island Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University.
Dr Hayward is active as a researcher in the areas of Asia-Pacific musics, island cultures and film soundtracks and currently holds two ARC Discovery Grants on these topics: (1) The Melanesian Music Industries (jointly with Dr Denis Crowdy) and (2) Contemporary Australian Feature Film Music (jointly with Dr Rebecca Coyle and Dr Michael Hannan).
Outside of university he is active in rainforest restoration in far north New South Wales and is developing research interests in this area.
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Sarah Keith is currently completing a PhD examining laptop performance of contemporary electronic music. Specific sub-areas of this research are generative real-time musical techniques, methodologies for performance and improvisation, and interface design. These areas are explored with regard to musical and performative practices within the broad genre of popular electronic music. A fundamental undertaking of this research is the identification of key musical operations within the constraints of a given genre, corresponding these actions with generative processes, and defining appropriate and achievable performance interactions. This thesis also includes a creative component, which entails the development and construction of a customised, laptop-based musical performance environment. This environment will be used for live performance of original musical works, which will subsequently be recorded.
Sarah Keith is also an Associate Lecturer with the Department of Contemporary Music Studies, and convenes music technology and music production courses MUS202 (Introduction to Music Technique), MUS203 (Virtual Studio Music Technology), and MUS300 (VST CD Production).
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Supervisors: Phil Hayward | Mark Evans | Denis Crowdy | Pauline Manley | Adrian McNeil
Postgraduates: Sarah Keith | Alex Mesker | Mohan Ayer | Pierre Seguin
Staff available as supervisors:
Professor Philip Hayward is available to supervise theses in the areas of Pacific music studies; island studies; western popular music; and music and audio-visual media.
Dr Mark Evans is available to supervise in the areas of Christian music; western popular music; and screen soundtracks.
Dr Denis Crowdy is available to supervise theses in the areas of Melanesian music; popular music in the Pacific; and music and new technologies.
Dr. Pauline Manley
Dr Adrian McNeil is available to supervise in the areas of Indian music and ethnomusicology.
Dr Bruce Johnson is available to supervise in the areas of jazz; music regulation; and aural identification.
Dr Guy Morrow is available to supervise theses in the areas of music industry and western popular music.
Postgraduate students have successfully completed theses on the following music topics:
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
- Contemporary song culture on Taveuni - Fiji (PhD): Jennifer Cattermole (supervised by Philip Hayward)
- The work of the Australian composer Alfred Hill (PhD): Allan Stiles (supervised by Philip Hayward)
- Trades Union songs (MA Research): Mark Gregory (supervised by Denis Crowdy)
- Contemporary Australian chamber opera (MA Research), May Howlett (supervised by Denis Crowdy)
- Sydney’s' commercial dance club circuit (PhD): Ed Montano (supervised by Philip Hayward)
