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Prof. Margaret Kartomi

Professor Margaret Kartomi

Email : margaret.kartomi@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone : (03) 9905 3238
Fax : (03) 9905 3241
Location : Performing Arts Centre, Room Room 121 Clayton Campus


RESEARCH INTERESTS
* Musicological and ethnomusicological theory, organology, historiography, ethnomusicology of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Aboriginal Australian children's music


QUALIFICATIONS
* Ph.D, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1968
* BA, University of Adelaide, 1963
* B.Mus. (Hons), University of Adelaide, 1964, in Composition and Piano
* AUA (Diploma of Pianoforte Performance), University of Adelaide, 1962


HONOURS AND AWARDS
* Member of Order of Australia (1991)
* Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities (1982)
* Winner of Prix du Disque of German Government for best ethnographic record (Sumatran Mandailing music) 1983 and co-winner in 1999
* Recipient of Australian Research Grants annually from 1974 to the present


INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

* Member of National Committee Musicological Society of Australia, former National President (1978-92, 1987-78), former President, Victorian Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia (1975-8)
* Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society, International Council for Traditional Music, Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology
* Member of the Editorial Board of Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, a series edited by Philip V.Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, The University of Chicago Press


ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
* Field recordings made by M. & H. Kartomi are deposited in the Department of Music, Monash University, as follows :

* The Kartomi Collection of Music of 24 of the Provinces of Indonesia, held in the Monash Music Archive with copies held in the National Library of Indonesia, Jakarta.


SELECTION FROM BOOKS, RECORD ALBUMS AND CDs AUTHORED
1991 On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, xix + 320pp
1983 Music of the Mandailing People, North Sumatra, Musicaphon, Bärenreiter BM 30 SL 2567. LP (West German Record Critic's Prize Winner).
1998 Muslim Music of Indonesia:East and West Sumatra, CD Vol. 15 No.s 13155-2 and 13156-2, in CD album The Music of Islam, Celestial Harmonies. Internet: http://www.harmonies.com
1999 The Gamalan Digul and its Maker, Pontjopangrawit, Melbourne: Indonesian Arts Society


SELECTION FROM BOOKS EDITED
General Editor of Australian Studies in History, Philosophy and Sound Studies of Music (Monograph Series) Currency Press, Sydney, Gordon and Breach, Newhaven Three volumes of this series have been published, including:
1994 Music Cultures in Contact; Convergences and Collisions Co-editors : M.J. Kartomi and S. Blum, General Editor : M.J. Kartomi, Currency Press, Sydney and Gordon & Breach, New Haven, 289 pp.
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1981 Five Essays on the Indonesian Arts, Clayton, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 87 pp.

SELECTION FROM ARTICLES PUBLISHED
1999 "The Music-Culture of South-Coast West Sumatra: Backwater of Minangkabau Heartland or Land of the Sacred Mermaid and the Earth Goddess?", Asian Music, 44
1995 'Traditional Music Weeps and Other Themes in the Discourse on Music, Dance and Theatre of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 26/2, 366-400.
1980 "Childlikeness in Play Songs - A Case Study Among the Pitjantjara at Yalata, South Australia", Miscellanea Musicologica 11 : 172-214


CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
* Music of Manggarai (West Flores), Indonesia (on ARC Large Grant)
* Jewish music in Southeast Asia (on ARC Large Grant with Professor Andrew McCredie).


ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
* Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
* Sonata for Violin and Piano
* Songs


OTHER LANGUAGES SPOKEN
* German
* Indonesian


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS - HIGHLIGHTS

2004 "Some Implications of Local Concepts of Space in the Music and Dance of Aceh." Yearbook for Traditional Music vol. 36 (2004): 1-49. [refereed journal article]

2002 The Gamelan Digul and the Prison-Camp Musician Who Built It - An Australian Link to the Indonesian Revolution, University of Rochester, 158 pp. [authored book and 100-minute CD]

1999 "The Classification of Musical Instruments: A Critical Account of Research in the 1990s, Ethnomusicology 45/2 (Spring/Summer): 283-314. [refereed journal article]

1998/99 "The Music-Culture of South-Coast West Sumatra: Backwater of the Minangkabau 'Heartland' or Home of the Sacred Mermaid and the Earth Goddess?", Asian Music XXX/1, (Fall/Winter), 133-182. [refereed journal article]

1993 "Comparative Musicology and Music Aesthetics- What has become of those subdivisions of Adler's "Systematic Musicology" and "Historical Musicology" of 1885?", Systematische Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 1 No. 2: 257-282. [refereed journal article]

1990 On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xix + 329 pp. [authored book]

1987 "Kapri: A Synthesis of Malay and Portuguese Music on the West Coast of North Sumatra", Cultures and Societies of North Sumatra, R. Carle (ed.), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag: 351-394. [chapter in book]

1986 "Tabut - a Shi'a Ritual Transplanted from India to Sumatra", in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia; Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge, David P. Chandler and M.C. Ricklefs (eds.), Melbourne: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 141-162. [chapter in book]

1985 Musical Instruments of Indonesia, Melbourne: Indonesian Arts Society, 60 pp. [authored book]

1981 "The Processes and Results of Musical Culture Contact: A Discussion of Terminology and Concepts", Ethnomusicology 25(2): 227-250. [refereed journal article] This article was reprinted in Transplanted European Music Cultures, Miscellanea Musicologica 12,(Andrew McCredie ed.): 21-39 (1987) and in Music as Culture, Vol 3, K.F. Shelemay (ed.), New York and London: Garland: 275-98 (1990).

Complete Publication List: kartomi_pubs.pdf

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