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Senior Lecturer:
DCMS://STAFF/Denis_Crowdy
(BMus Hons - UWA, MA Hons - UNE, PhD - Macquarie)

Telephone: (612) 9850-6787
Room: W6A 608
E-mail: denis.crowdy@humn.mq.edu.au

Academic Profile

Summary CV
Current Teaching
Research Profile (PDF)
Downloadable Articles

Summary CV

Research Interests

Melanesian popular music, production of recordings of indigenous music, world musicincial Publications

Crowdy (2005) Guitar Style, Open Tunings, and Stringband Music in Papua New Guinea, Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics, 9 Port Moresby: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies

External Grants

2005: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for research on the Melanesian music industries (co-awarded with Professor Philip Hayward) - $235,000

Thesis Areas Supervised

Melanesian popular music - various
Electronic music and algorithmic approaches to composition
Electronic music and the impact of digital technology
Sephardi Music and peace movements in the Middle East
Union songs in Australia
Chamber Opera production in Australia

Principal Creative Works

Production and performance:
Seaman Dan, Follow the Sun, Hot Records, HOT 1075, 2000
George “Toofie” Christian, Pilli Lornga NI, Coral Music CM001, 2001
Seaman Dan, Steady, Steady, Hot Records, HOT 1079, 2002
Seaman Dan, Perfect Pearl, Hot Records, HOT 1094, 2004

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Current Teaching

Denis Crowdy is on research leave for first semester, 2008

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