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

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

• 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 1990s–2020s: 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.