Dr. Graeme Smith
Lecturer in Musicology
Email: Graeme Smith@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9905 3233
Fax: (03) 9905 3241
Location: Performing Arts Centre, Room 114 Clayton Campus
MUS1100 Exploring Music (World Musics component)
MUS1030 Music and Popular Culture- Asia and Australia
MUS3910 Music of Sub-Saharan Africa
MUS3390 Music Aesthetics Criticism and Sociology (with Dr Joel Crotty (coordinator) and Prof. Margaret Kartomi)
MUS4420 Research Methods (with Dr Joel Crotty (coordinator))
MUM4600 Special Research Topic
MUM5020 Directed Reading in Musicology
MUM5010 Topics in Musicology (with others)
Research
General Areas: Popular music studies and ethnomusicology, especially music and national and group identity, folk revival musics, Irish traditional music, Australian country music, multicultural and world music, construction of social meaning, voice and body.
Some of my previous research has investigated the construction of social meaning in Irish traditional dance music, and the expressions of emigration, modernisation and identity within its practice. I have also written extensively on the Australian folk and country movements, as well as the way the Australian world/multicultural music has interacted with official and popular politics of difference and identity.
Much of my recent research has been directed to the recent book Singing Australian: A History of Folk and Country Music published by Pluto Press in July 2005. In this book I trace the history of these musical scenes showing how they have entered into the many-sided debates on community, nation and identity which have dominated public discourse over the last thirty years.
More information on this book
is available through the link below
Singing
Australian: Information
Publications
You can find a list of my publications at
Bibliography
You can find more information on my current
activities, research and projects at my Personal
Web Page