Personal details
- Name
- Dr Gavin Carfoot
- Position(s)
- Senior Lecturer (Music and Sound)
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Creative Practice,
Music - Discipline *
- Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3691
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 8105
- gavin.carfoot@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University), Master of Music (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
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Music, Popular music studies, Popular music education, Australian Indigenous music, Music and material culture
Biography
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.
Publications
- 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
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Sound Mobility: The Smart Phone as a Ubiquitous Portable Recording Studio
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Whelan - A Community and Cultural Development Practice for the 21st Century - Virtuosity and Community Dramaturgy to Amplify Transformational Change
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sandra Gattenhof, Emeritus Professor Brad Haseman - I'm with Muriel: Applying a Persona-centred Songwriting Technique to the Creation of a New Australian musical
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kiley Gaffney, Adjunct Professor Philip Graham
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Sensemaking in the Recording Environment: Understanding the Role of the Record Producer (2020)
- Indie-Folk: Vintage Sensibilities in The 21st Century (2019)
- Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Culture and Practice of Remastering Music (2019)
- Popular Song and Narratology: Exploring the Relationship between Narrative Theory and Song Lyrics through Creative Practice (2019)
- Space, Time, Creativity, and the Changing Character of the Recording Studio: Spatiotemporal Attitudes Toward 'DIY' Recording (2018)
- The Family 'Playlist': Popular music, age and identity (2017)
- The slow death of Everett True: A metacriticism (2016)