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Australasian Music at Home and Abroad 43RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALASIAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA MUSIC AT HOSTED BY THE MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM HOME AND OF MUSIC CELEBRATING ITS 125TH ANNIVERSARY ABROAD 3 – 5 December 2020 0 WELCOME 2020 marks 125 years since the establishment of the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. We are delighted that the MSA has allowed us to link our celebration of this event with the 43rd MSA national conference, in conjunction with the 19th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance. Our initial projected grand celebrations have necessarily had to be curtailed because of COVID and sadly we are not able to physically showcase the splendour of our new building to musicologists and ethnomusicologists across the country and indeed the world. But this current online conference is still a very special event for us, which truly marks our history (a history which is directly addressed by our two wonderful keynotes) and more generally contextualises our history by its theme, Australasian Music Making: At Home and Abroad. We have an exciting programme with outstanding scholars from across Australia, New Zealand and the world, addressing many different aspects of our theme, and beyond. I am sure that wherever you are watching you will thoroughly enjoy the conference. – Kerry Murphy, Convenor I am delighted to welcome you to the 43rd National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, held in conjunction with the 19th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance. I am also thrilled that the aforementioned events offer us all the opportunity to celebrate the 125 years since the founding of the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. While the National Conference and Symposium are taking place virtually due to Covid-19, it is reassuring that so many researchers from across Australia, New Zealand and the world will be able to come together to highlight the social, cultural, historical, political and scientific importance of music and music making. I hope that you will be able to attend as many sessions as possible and engage in lively and collegial debate. We exercise our scholarship, and undertake research in many different ways. This, then, is an opportunity to share, grow and enjoy. – Jonathan McIntosh, MSA President 1 Conference Team Convenor: Kerry Murphy Conference Organiser: Sarah Kirby Organising Committee: John Gabriel, Fred Kiernan, Linda Kouvaras, Tiriki Onus, Sally Treloyn Program Committee: Linda Kouvaras (Chair), Michael Christoforidis, John Gabriel, Rachel Orzech Web Support: Kristal Spreadborough Treasurer: Peter Campbell SIMD Convenors: Tiriki Onus and Sally Treloyn SIMD Organising committee: Tiriki Onus, Sally Treloyn, Megan McPherson MSA Access and Equity Officer: Anthea Skinner Our physical Faculty meets to make, teach and research art on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, who have been custodians of this land for tens of thousands of years where they have practiced song, ceremony and art belonging to this country. We acknowledge that sovereignty to this land has not been ceded, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, as well as to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people connected to the wider Melbourne community. We meet virtually for this conference on the lands of many other Indigenous nations and peoples; we acknowledge their elders, past present and emerging. 2 CONTENTS Welcome ...................................................................................................................................................... 1 Conference Team ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Contents ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS ...................................................................................................................... 4 For Delegates ........................................................................................................................................ 4 For Presenters ....................................................................................................................................... 4 PROGRAMME ......................................................................................................................................... 6 KEYNOTES AND ROUNDTABLES .............................................................................................. 18 Keynote 1: Brenda Gifford Journey of a Yuin composer: Change, challenges and crossroads ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Keynote 2: Dylan Robinson Queens University, Canada thá:ytset: shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw / Reparative Aesthetics: The Museum’s Incarceration of Indigenous Life .................................................................................................................................... 18 Keynote 3: Peter Tregear University of Melbourne Conflicts, Constitutions, and the ‘Con’ ................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Keynote 4: Suzanne Robinson Melbourne Conservatorium of Music “Neither Athletes nor Blue stockings”: Women in the Music Profession in Melbourne, 1892–1912 .............. 20 Roundtable 1: Beethoven and Australia: Reflections on his 250th Anniversary ................. 20 Roundtable 2: Ethnomusicology and Musicology in Australia: The Next 125 Years ....... 21 SPECIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................... 22 Book Launches..................................................................................................................................... 22 Virtual Bookstand ............................................................................................................................... 23 Multivocal Exhibition........................................................................................................................ 23 Tour of the Ian Potter Southbank Centre..................................................................................... 24 Social Events ........................................................................................................................................ 24 ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES .................................................................... 26 PRESENTER INDEX ........................................................................................................................ 127 3 ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS GENERAL ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS FOR DELEGATES Make sure you have Zoom installed on your computer well in advance of the conference. You may have Zoom available through your institution, otherwise, you can download the Free ‘Basic’ version of Zoom by signing up here: https://zoom.us/pricing Links for Stream A, B, C & D and special events like book launches will be emailed to you the evening before each day of the conference. To join a session, click on the appropriate stream link at the time of the paper you wish to see. Microphones will be automatically muted on entry. If you wish to speak, you can unmute yourself by clicking on the microphone symbol in the lower left-hand corner of the window, or temporarily by holding down the spacebar on your keyboard. Please keep yourself muted during presentations unless called on to speak by the presenter or session chair. You have the option to have your camera on or off. If possible, please keep your camera on—it’s much nicer speaking to a screen of faces than blank squares! But the option to turn off remains available to you by clicking the ‘video’ symbol in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. There is also a ‘chat’ option, which can be used to submit comments and questions. Your messages are set to be visible to everyone in the session. There is an option to chat privately with another attendee, but please also be aware that transcripts of these conversations can be read by the meeting hosts. At the end of each talk, the chair will select questions from the chat for the speaker to answer, and also call on participants to ask other questions live. ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS Please join your scheduled session ten minutes early to test your microphone and any slides or audio you may be using. You will be put in contact with both your session chair and a dedicated tech assistant before the conference. Please provide a copy of your powerpoint slides (if you are using them) to your tech assistant NO LATER than one week before the conference. These will be a back-up copy in case you run into difficulties on the day. Zoom provides some information on best practices for presenting https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/209743263-Meeting-and- Webinar-Best-Practices-and-Resources Make sure your microphone remains muted until it is your turn to give your presentation. 4 For instructions on sharing your screen (to allow delegates to see your powerpoint, for example) see: https://www.youtube.com/embed/YA6SGQlVmcA?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_pol icy=1 If you are intending to play musical or video examples it is very important that you click the ‘share computer sound’ check box when starting to share
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