Prof. 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 :
-
Sumatra Music Archive (recordings from all provinces of Sumatra)
-
Australian Archive of Jewish Music
-
Southeast Asian Music Archive (recordings of music of the southern Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand)
-
Australian Music Collection (recordings of Aboriginal Music, from Yalata)
* 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.
* * *
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