Dr Vicki Ware

BA BMus (Melbourne), Cert TEFLA (UCLES/RSA), PhD (Monash)

Adjunct Research Associate

Biography

Vicki’s current research interests include music analysis techniques, how music contributes to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity (particularly in the context of rapid culture change and modernisation), and the use of indigenous musics as a pedagogical and therapeutic tool in international development (action research).

She is currently preparing a paper for publication on a melodic analysis technique she developed in my doctoral studies. This technique allows comparison of ‘world music’ genres to the parent musics to assess the way in which melody is used to present traditional and ‘modernised’ music-cultural identities.

She also hopes to commence writing a couple of papers this year on some action research projects she conducted in Southeast Asia whilst she lived there (1995-2003). These projects involved the development of song-writing programs to assist with development projects running across the region. She hopes to have these published in an international development journal in the near future.

In January 2008, Vicki presented a paper on culture contact and change as demonstrated in Dontri Thai Prayuk (modernised Thai music) at the Thai Studies Conference at Thammasat University (Bangkok).