Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education

This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context. As a subject that bears little resemblance to other university practical disciplines, and fares poorly in a model driven by economics, the book considers whether musicology is a 'public good' or a threatened species. It contemplates what musicology can usefully contribute to a paradigm driven by economics, and questions whether it is ever possible to recover an ideal civil subject in neoliberal music academia. Contributions investigate what it means to build music research capacity in innovative ways, such as forging cross-cultural relationships, subverting conventional notions of quality and value, replacing them with knowledges and values that guide Indigenous intellectual traditions, and whether interventions into the legacy of colonialism are truly ever possible in neoliberal higher education institutions that celebrate difference and diversitywhile reinforcing social inequities. The book also explores the relationships between gender and music, music research training and scholarship, and whether the interdisciplinarity championed by the university is ever workable. Finally, it undertakes a cross-disciplinary, new materialist reading of a canonical musical work, offering a radically new perspective. The book will appeal to students and scholars of music education, musicology, higher education studies and the creative arts more broadly.

Provides the first book-length work exploring the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship Covers a vast array of topics in ethnomusicology, popular music, pedagogy and research administration Offers new perspectives on collaboration, decolonisation, practice-led research, interdisciplinarity and new materialism

Autorentext

Sally Macarthur is an Adjunct Professor of Musicology at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, Australia

Julja Szuster is a musicologist and Visiting Research Fellow at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Paul Watt is an Adjunct Professor of Musicology at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Music in the Neoliberal University Sally Macarthur, Julja Szuster and Paul Watt.- Part 1. Behaviours and Bureaucracies.- 2. Incivility and Music in Higher Education Sally Macarthur.- 3. Reconfiguring Gender, Sexuality, Music and Higher Education Sally Macarthur, with Susan McClary, Elizabeth Wood, Judith Lochhead, Jennifer Shaw, and Gillian Rodger.- 4. Shaping of Music Research in Australian Universities 1990s2020s: ERA, Quality, Value, Impact and Workplace Pressure Jane Davidson.- 5. Recovering Musicology as a Public Service in the Neoliberal University: Obstacles, Obligations and Opportunities Peter Tregear.- Part 2. Teaching, Research and Scholarship: Forging New Pathways and Partners.- 6. Historical Performance in Early Opera: A Brown Female Artist-Scholar's Autoethnography Charulatha Mani.- 7. Decoloniality and the Disappearance of Ethnomusicology in Australian Universities: Where are we Now? Elizabeth Mackinlay and Katelyn Barney.- 8. To Sound the Drum: A Dialogue on Value and Change in Relation to First Nations Music and Research in the Academy; Tiriki Onus and Sally Treloyn.- Part 3. Higher Degrees, Research Practice and New Materialism.- 9. The Music Practice PhD: Where is it Headed? ;Julja Szuster and Paul Watt.- 10. Interdisciplinarity and Musicology in Higher Degree Research ;Joseph Williams,- 11. Sensual Encounters with the Materiality of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2; Bronwyn Davies and Sally Macarthur.