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Head of Department:
DCMS://STAFF/Mark_Evans
(BA Hons - Macquarie, PhD Macquarie)

Telephone: (612) 9850-6780
Room: W6A 600
E-mail:mark.evans@humn.mq.edu.au

Academic Profile

Summary CV
Current Teaching
Research Profile (PDF)
Downloadable Articles

Mark Evans completed a doctorate in contemporary Christian music in 2002. He is co-editor of Perfect Beat - The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, and has published articles on a range of topics, including: the use of sound in the 'Matrix' films; copyright; CD-Rom; Christian music; rock journalism; and country music in Australia. He is also a pianist and has recorded and performed in various contemporary styles.

Summary CV

Research Interests

Contemporary Congregational Music
Popular Music Musicology and Industry
Australian Country Music
Film Music Studies

Principal Publications

Evans, M (2006) Open Up The Doors: Music In The Modern Church, London: Equinox Publishing

Evans, M and Walden, G (eds) Markets and Margins: Australian Country Music Volume 3, Gympie: Australian Institute of Country Music Press (2005)

Co-Editor since 1997: Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture

Plus in progress: Series Editor for Genre, Music, Sound series being published by Equinox Publishing (2007-2010)

Thesis Areas Supervised

a. Supervised to completion:
‘Even Better Than The Real Thing?: Covers and the Australian music industry’ (MA, 2006)

a. Supervision in progress:
'Modal Jazz in Australia'(PhD, scheduled completion 2010)
'Music-based bipics'(Phd, scheduled completion 2010)

Research in-progess

Spatiality in contemporary film sound.
Musical culture of Chatham Island.
Feminised congregational music.

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Current Teaching

MUS 303 (Screen Soundtracks)
MUS 204 (Sound Explorations)

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