Dr Julie Rickwood
Areas of expertise
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing 1904
- Cultural Studies 2002
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Other History, Heritage And Archaeology 4399
Research interests
Popular Music, Community Music, Gender, Place, Heritage, Cross-Cultural Exchange and Common Ground, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology of Performance, Ethnography, Ecomusicology, Ecochoreography, Environmental History. My publications list illustrates aspects of my work in each of these areas of interest.
Biography
Julie Rickwood is a music and performance researcher and practitioner based in Canberra, Australia. Julie's postdoctoral research has concentrated on Australian popular music, place, gender, and environmental activism; and on community music, cross-cultural exchange and common ground, and, again, environmental activism. More recently she has also been researching in the field of ecochoreography and is currently working on a publication exploring environmental and cultural history and heritage. Julie has published conference papers, journal articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of Popular Music, Stars and Stardom (2018, ANU Press).
In 2013 Julie completed a doctoral research project, “We Are Australian: An ethnographic investigation of the convergence of community music and reconciliation”, a close study of three cross-cultural choral interactions. Earlier graduate research focused on the Australian a cappella scene and the community singing movement. In 1997 she completed a master’s thesis entitled “Liberating Voices: Towards an ethnography of women’s community a cappella choirs in Australia”. This research project examined the intersection of gender, identity and singing.
Julie is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the Australian Historical Association. She is a dancer/choreographer with Somebody’s Aunt and a tenor with the Pop Up Choir.
Publications
- Rickwood, J 2022, 'Travelling Pathways: A choreographic journey with loss, grief and hope [CASS uploaded]', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 12, no. 1.
- Rickwood, J 2021, 'Mapping Popular Music Exhibitions in Australia', XX Binennial Conference of IASPM, 2019, ed. Kimi Kärki, International Institute for Popular Culture, Finland, pp. 106-109.
- Rickwood, J 2020, 'Wendy Saddington and The Copperwine, "Wendy Saddington and The Copperwine" Live (1971)', in Jon Stratton, Jon Dale & Tony Mitchell (ed.), An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements, Bloomsbury Academic, Oxford, pp. 23-38.
- Rickwood, J 2020, 'Review: Gay'wu Group of Women, "Song Spirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines"', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1-3.
- Rickwood, J 2020, ''There's no music on a dead planet': The role of Green Music Australia in climate change activism', Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 155-172.
- Loy, S, Rickwood, J & Bennett, S, eds, 2018, Popular Music, Stars and Stardom, ANU Press, Canberra.
- Loy, S, Rickwood, J & Bennett, S 2018, 'Popular Music, Stars and Stardom: Definitions, Discourses, Interpretations', in Stephen Loy, Julie Rickwood and Samantha Bennett (ed.), Popular Music, Stars and Stardom, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-20.
- Rickwood, J 2018, 'Wendy Saddington: Beyond an ‘Underground Icon’', in Stephen Loy, Julie Rickwood and Samantha Bennett (ed.), Popular Music, Stars and Stardom, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 73-93.
- Rickwood, J 2018, 'Revitalising Desert Gospel Choral Music', in Dorottya Fabian and John Napier (ed.), Diversity in Australia’s Music: Themes Past, Present, and for the Future, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 120-137.
- Rickwood, J 2018, 'The Phoenix and the Bootleg Sessions: A Canberra Venue for Local Music', in Shelley Brunt and Geoff Stahl (ed.), Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 31-43.
- Rickwood, J 2018, 'Exchange and Common Ground: The Big Sing in the Desert', in Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Melissa Cain, Diana Tolmie, Anne Power, and Mari Shiobara (ed.), Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon, University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, pp. 133-152.
- Rickwood, J 2017, 'Lament, Poetic Prayer, Petition, and Protest: Community Choirs and Environmental Activism in Australia', Musicultures, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 109-132.
- Rickwood, J 2016, Canberra Museum and Gallery exhibition celebrates Wendy Saddington, the '60s rock music renegade who was ignored by the mainstream, Canberra Times, 17 May.
- Rickwood, J 2015, 'Into the mix on the street: Community choirs at the National Folk Festival', International Association for the Study of Popular Music IASPM 2014, ed. Jennifer Cattermole, Henry Johnson and Oli Wilson, IASPM Australia/New Zealand, Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 59-65.
- Rickwood, J 2014, 'African Grace in Central Australia: community choirs, reconciliation and intercultural performance', International Journal of Community Music, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 343-363.
- Rickwood, J 2014, 'Choralecology?: Community choirs and environmental activism', Social Alternatives, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 30-38.
- Rickwood, J 2014, 'The Big Sing in the Desert: An Emphasis on Exchange and Common Ground', Musicworks: Journal of the Australian Council of Orff Schulwerk, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 9-16pp.
- Rickwood, J 2014, 'Indigenizing a 'canon': The entry of 'My Island Home', "Baba Waiar' and 'Kulba Yaday' into the repertoire of community choirs.', Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 45-65.
- Rickwood, J 2014, 'Review of Veblen, K. K., S. J. Messenger, M. Silverman and D. J. Elliott. 2013. Community Music Today. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Education.', Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 91-93.
- Rickwood, J 2013, 'Singing in between: Re-visioning intercultural community singing', re-Visions: New Zealand Musicological Society and the Musicological Society of Australia Joint Conference, ed. Marian Poole, New Zealand Music Industry Centre, University of Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 218-229.
- Rickwood, J 2013, 'We Are Australian': An ethnographic investigation of the convergence of community music and reconciliation.
- Rickwood, J 2012, 'Reconciliation Made Sound: Madjitil Moorna's Experience of Harmony and Healing', Context: Journal of Music Research, Vol. 37, pp. 93-106.
- Rickwood, J 2010, 'Taking the Piss?: Australian blokes and a cappella choirs', International Association for the Study of Popular Music Australia/New Zealand Conference 2009, ed. Shelley D Brunt & Kirsten Zemke, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 55-61.