SALLY MACARTHUR

Sally Macarthur is a musicologist, keyboard performer and improviser, and holds the position of senior lecturer in music and co-ordinator of musicology at the University of Western Sydney. She has been a member of the Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy Research Node (UWS) and is currently an Associate Member of the Arts New England Research Centre for Research and Innovation in the Arts, University of New England.

An important strand of her research, exemplified in her recent book, Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music (Farnham, England and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2010), draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to propose a new way to think about women's music and feminist musicology. It argues that solutions in previous work have not been found and while this book does not seek to offer a solution in the neo-liberal sense it suggests, nonetheless, that positive thought can lead to positive action. Another strand of her research explores aesthetics in music, and the application of feminist aesthetics to women's music. This was the topic of her doctoral dissertation (1997) and her book Feminist Aesthetics in Music (2002).

Macarthur is published widely in scholarly and professional journals with recent articles appearing in Radical Musicology, Musicology Australia, Cultural Studies Review and Australian Feminist Studies. Her work is also featured in Music Forum and Sounds Australian, with three issues of the latter devoted to women's music under her guest editorship (1998, 1993-4 and 1989).

Dr Macarthur has been a referee for articles in a number of scholarly publications, and is regularly invited to examine PhD and Masters' theses. She is an international assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC). During her career, she has taken leadership in four national women's music festivals and conferences: Adelaide, 1991, where she was a keynote speaker; Melbourne, 1994; Sydney, 1997; and Canberra, 2001. She is currently working with colleagues at the University of New England, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne to stage another festival in Brisbane, Armidale and Melbourne. A research component will be incorporated into this current festival project.

Dr Sally Macarthur is the author of two books on feminist musicology.

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music is now published by Ashgate.

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Her first book, Feminist Aesthetics in Music was published by Greenwood Press in 2002 and remains in print.