| Degrees |
Bachelor of Music (Honours), University of Melbourne; Master of Music (Research), University of Melbourne |
| Course |
DPhil Music (Musicology) |
| College |
Hertford |
music and politics; sociology of music; cultural policy; music in Australia
My archive-based research examines the cultural politics of western art music production in Australia from the 1960s to the 1990s. Amidst rapidly shifting social, political and economic conditions in the post-war era, these decades saw the introduction of government arts funding and increased institutional support for new art music in Australia. Through a diachronic examination of the interrelationship between cultural production and policy, my thesis analyses how art music was funded in post-war Australia. My study asks how artistic producers can shape policy creation and explores how the interests of the state can penetrate the art music field not only by political fiat but also through the strategic agency of composers themselves.
