Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Behaviours and Bureaucracies
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Teaching, Research and Scholarship: Forging New Pathways and Partners
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Higher Degrees, Research Practice and New Materialism
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment and Music in Higher Education
Editors: Sally Macarthur, Julja Szuster, Paul Watt
Series Title: Palgrave Critical University Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50388-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50387-0Published: 30 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50390-0Due: 30 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50388-7Published: 29 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-7329
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 275
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Music, Higher Education, Arts