Dr Julie Rickwood

PhD (ANU); Grad Dip (Ed) (UC)
Visitor, Centre for Environmental History, School of History
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

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

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