Cultures of Musical Research in the Contemporary University

Directed by Adjunct Professor Sally Macarthur

This project examines the implications – economic, musical, and cultural – that music teaching and research is currently experiencing in the contemporary university but offers insights and paths to secure a future of vibrant, quality, and meaningful music research. It challenges conventional views about what comprises the modern music program in higher education, and asks what kinds of research and scholarship it should undertake in the contemporary, decolonized and new materialist world.

Publications arising from this project will include a special-issue journal and ongoing research into the future of the music academy in Australia and beyond.