QUT | Staff Profiles | Gavin Carfoot

Name: Dr Gavin Carfoot
Position(s): Senior Lecturer (Music and Sound)
Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Music
Discipline *: Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Phone: +61 7 3138 3691
Fax: +61 7 3138 8105
Email: gavin.carfoot@qut.edu.au
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Qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University), Master of Music (University of Queensland)
Keywords: Music, Popular music studies, Popular music education, Australian Indigenous music, Music and material culture

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Dr Gavin Carfoot is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the Queensland University of Technology. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in Popular Music at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (2003-2013). He has worked extensively in popular music curriculum and assessment at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His collaborative work in popular music education and community service learning won a Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012, and he has recent publications in the Oxford Handbook in Artistic Citizenship, Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education, Arts-Based Service Learning with First Peoples (Springer), Popular Music and Popular Communication. As a songwriter and producer, Gavin’s musical career has taken him from performing with touring swing bands to working with pop artists from television shows such as Australian Idol and X Factor.

This information has been contributed by Dr Gavin Carfoot.

Carfoot G, Millard B, (2019) Tertiary popular music education: Institutions, innovation and tradition, The Bloomsbury handbook of popular music education: Perspectives and practices p59-72
Carfoot G, Millard B, Bennett S, Allan C, (2017) Parallel, series, and integrated: Models of tertiary popular music education, The Routledge research companion to popular music education p139-150
Bartleet B, Carfoot G, (2016) Arts-based service learning with Indigenous communities: Engendering artistic citizenship, Artistic citizenship : artisty, social responsibility, and ethical praxis p339-358
Bartleet B, Carfoot G, Murn A, (2016) Exploring university-community partnerships in arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples and arts organizations, Engaging first peoples in arts-based service learning: Towards respectful and mutually beneficial educational practices [Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, Volume 18] p31-49
Carfoot G, (2016) 'Enough is enough': songs and messages about alcohol in remote Central Australia, Popular Music p222-230
Bartleet B, Sunderland N, Carfoot G, (2016) Enhancing intercultural engagement through service learning and music making with Indigenous communities in Australia, Research Studies in Music Education p173-191
Carfoot G, (2016) Musical discovery, colonialism, and the possibilities of intercultural communication through music, Popular Communication p178-186
Bartleet B, Carfoot G, (2013) Desert harmony: Stories of collaboration between Indigenous musicians and university students, International Education Journal p180-196
Carfoot G, (2008) Competition Hertz : the culture and practice of car audio competitions, Continuum p667-674
Carfoot G, (2006) Acoustic, electric and virtual noise : the cultural identity of the guitar, Leonardo Music Journal p35-39

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