Publications BY DR SALLY MACARTHUR

Books

Sole Author  

  • Macarthur, Sally, Towards a Twenty–First Century Feminist Politics of Music (Farnham, England and Burlington, USA: Ashgate, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4094-0982-Anyone buying the book through www.ashgate.com will automatically receive a discount. 
  • Macarthur, Sally, Feminist Aesthetics in Music (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002) ISBN 978-0-313-31320-2

Monographs

  • Macarthur, Sally, Sexing the Tune: Moya Henderson’s ‘Stubble’ (Sydney: University of Western Sydney Women’s Research Centre, 1998), pp. 5–27.

(Co)Editor Books (Peer–Reviewed)

  • Macarthur, Sally, Crossman, Bruce and Morelos, Ronaldo (eds) (Inter)cultural Issues and Musical Contexts (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 2006).
  • Macarthur, Sally and Poynton, Cate (eds) Musics and Feminisms (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1999).
  • Macarthur, Sally (ed.) Proceedings of the New Music Australia Conference 1992 (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1998)

Editor Special Issue Journals

  • Macarthur, Sally (Guest Editor), Women and Music: Checks and Balances special issue of Sounds Australian: The Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 51 (1998).
  • Macarthur, Sally (Guest Editor), The Women’s Issue special issue of Sounds Australian: The Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 40 (Summer 1993–94).
  • Macarthur, Sally (Guest Editor) The Woman Composer special issue of Sounds Australian: The Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 21 (Autumn 1989).

Book Chapters (Peer–Reviewed)

  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women, Spirituality, Landscape: The Music of Anne Boyd, Sarah Hopkins and Moya Henderson’ in Fiona Richards (ed.) The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 51–74.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘The Cultural Work of the Musical Work’ in Sally Macarthur, Bruce Crossman, and Ronaldo Morelos (eds) Intercultural Music: Creation and Interpretation (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 2006), pp. 14–26
  • Macarthur, Sally and Schaffler, Rosemary, ‘Visions of a New Spirituality in Australia: The Music of Anne Boyd’ in Linda Kouvaras, Ruth Lee Martin, and Graham Hair (eds) Loose Canons: Conference Proceedings of the Women’s Music Festival (Amaroo, ACT: Southern Voices, 2004), pp. 121–139.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Performance Rites: AMEB, or not to be?’ in Sally Macarthur and Cate Poynton (eds) Musics and Feminisms (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1999), pp. 19–27.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Love and Passion in Alma Mahler’s Ansturm’ in Peter Platt (ed.) Predictions and Inaccuracies: Collisions of Musical Histories Approaching the Millennium (Sydney: Sydney Chapter of the Musicological Society, 1999), pp. 53–65
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Feminism and Music’ in Barbara Caine (General Editor) Australian Feminism: A Companion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 460–61.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Feminism and Music’ in Sally Macarthur (ed.) Proceedings of the New Music Australia Conference 1992 (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1998), pp. 460–61.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Moya Henderson’ in Warren Bebbington (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 264–65.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Keys to the Musical Body’ in Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle (eds) Transitions: New Australian Feminisms (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995), pp. 120–33.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier: Can You Hear Me?’ in Thérése Radic (ed.) Repercussions: Australian Composing Women’s Festival and Conference, 1994 (Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, 1995), pp. 103–107.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women Composers have got Australia Covered’ in Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (eds) Australia for Women: Travel and Culture (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1994), pp. 173–184.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women Composers have got Australia Covered’, in German, trans. Ursula Grave, Australien der Frauen: Reise & Kultur (Munich, Germany: Frauenoffensive Verlag, 1994), pp. 167–175.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Where are the Women Composers?’ in Graeme Skinner (ed.) The Composer Speaks (Sydney: Sounds Australian, 1991), pp. 17–21
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Moya Henderson’ in Brunhilde Sonntag and Renate Mattei (eds) Annaherung V: an sieben Komponistinnen (Kassel, Germany: Furore–Verlag, 1988), pp. 43–52.

Articles in Peer–Reviewed Journals

  • Macarthur, Sally, “Composing the ‘Woman’ Composer’, Musicology Australia, Vol. 34, 2011 (in press)
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Chaos, Territory, Music Research’, Musicology Australia, Vol. 32, No. 1 (July 2010): pp. 121-130.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women, New Music and the Composition of Becomings’, Cultural Studies Review Vol. 16, No. 2 (2010): pp. 248-270. 
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Post/Modernizing Australian Music’, Musicology Australia, Vol. 31 (2009): pp. 63–74.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘A Thousand Dissonances: Music Research and the Nomadic Female Composer’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 59 (March 2009): pp. 53–69.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘A Becoming–Infinite Cycle in the Music of Anne Boyd’, Radical Musicology, Vol. 3 (2008) http://www.radical-musicology.org.uk/2008.htm, 54 pars
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘A Musical Woman in a Man’s World: Rebecca Clarke’, Musicology Australia, Vol. 29 (2007): pp. 161–166.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘The Beautiful, Disgusting and the Sublime: An Essay Review of Gender and Aesthetics’, Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006) http://mas.siue.edu/ACT/, pp. 1–12.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Music and Collaborative Structures: Ros Bandt’, Contemporary Music Review: Reclaiming the Muse, Vol. 11 (1994): pp. 13–17.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Conducting the past to the present: The music of Ann Carr–Boyd’, Contemporary Music Review: Reclaiming the Muse, Vol. 11 (1994): pp. 61–64.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Music as Lifestyle, Politics as Music: Moya Henderson’, Contemporary Music Review: Reclaiming the Muse, Vol. 11 (1994): pp. 141–145.
  • Macarthur, Sally and Trojer, Luciana, ‘Opus 2: Music, Theatre and Language Learning’, Revue de phonetique appliquee (1985): pp. 73–75.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Gender and the Tertiary Music Curriculum in Australia’ in Catherine Grant (ed.) Music in Australian Tertiary Institutions: Issues for the 21st Century, http://www.nactmus.org.au/NACTMUS2007/musical_culture_of_australia.html, 2007, pp. 1–38
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Lesbian Politics and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir’ in Denis Crowdy, Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell (eds.) Musical In–Between–ness: The Proceedings of the 8th IASPM Australia–New Zealand Conference (Sydney: UTS, 2002), pp. 227–240 (peer–reviewed refereed following the conference).

Professional Journal Articles (21)

  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Difference and Music’, The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Blog (26 Jan 2010), http://iawm.wordpress.com/?s=macarthur
  • Macarthur, Sally ‘Raising the Platform for Women’, Music Forum, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Feb–Apr. 2006): pp. 40–43.
  • Macarthur, Sally and Schaffler, Rosemary, ‘Visions of a New Spirituality in Australia: The Music of Anne Boyd’, Postwest, Vol. 19 (2001): pp. 45–49.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Dissonances: Reflections on Music Research and the Academy’, Postwest,Vol. 15 (1999): pp. 49–54.
  • Macarthur, Sally and Knowles, Julian, ‘Arts in the Age of Economic Rationalism’, Postwest, Vol. 14 (1999): pp. 14–17.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Is Feminism Past the Post?’, 2MBS–FM Guide (July 1999): pp. 8–10.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women’s Music: A Measure of the Beautiful?’, Women and Music: Checks and Balances in special issue Sounds Australian: Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 51 (1998): pp. 4–5.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Musicology at UWS Nepean’, Articulation: Sydney Chapter MSA Newsletter (June 1998).
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Resonances: Reflections on the 3rd Australian Women’s Festival and Conference’, Music Forum, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Feb–Mar 1998): pp. 29–31.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Ann Carr–Boyd’, ASME News: Newsletter, (May 1995): pp. 32–33.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Happy birthday to you!’, !Bulletin: Music Council of Australia, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Oct–Nov 1995): pp. 3⊄4.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Centennial Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of Music at The University of Melbourne’, Postwest: Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts Research Bulletin,Vol. 2, No. 2 (Nov 1995): pp. 3–4.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Feminism and Music: The Female Energy in Anne Boyd’s Cycle of Love’, The Women’s Issue in special issue Sounds Australian: The Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 40 (Summer 1993–94): pp. 32–35.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Writing Difference into the Musical Body’, Music in New Zealand (Spring 1993): pp. 10–13; 104.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Celebrating Difference in Music at the 1991 Gender and Music Conference’,Postmodernism: What is it? in special issue Sounds Australian:Journal of the Australian Music Centre, Vol. 33 (Autumn 1992): pp. 5–9; 12.
  • Macarthur, Sally, "Criticism: the ‘irritable bowel syndrome’ of music", Sounds Australian, Vol. 35 (Spring 1992): pp. 37–40.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Feminine Cadences – and Dissonances’, 24 Hours (Dec 1991): pp. 47–49; 53.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Ripping the Beard Off Analysis: Writing Moya Henderson and Gillian Whitehead into the Discourse’, Sounds Australian, Vol. 31 (Spring 1991): pp. 29–34; 47.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Moya Henderson in Profile’, 2MBS–FM Programme Guide (January 1990): pp. 7–9.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Women in the Tertiary Music System: Is It Really All Games?’ Sounds Australian, Vol. 24 (Summer 1989–90): pp. 24–27.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Sarah Hopkins’, Sounds Australian: The Woman Composer, Vol. 21 (Autumn 1989): pp. 18–19.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Ann Carr–Boyd’, Sounds Australian: The Woman Composer, Vol. 21 (Autumn 1989): p. 18.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Men Call Tune’ Weekend Australian, 10–11 Sept. 1988: p. 13.
  • Macarthur, Sally and Trojer, Luciana, ‘Opus 1: A Discourse Between Language and Music’, SGAV Review, 2, 1982

Professional Reviews (6)

  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of James R Briscoe (ed.) Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women,Musicology Australia, Vol. XXI (1998): pp. 61–63.
  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of Jim Davidson, Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson–Dyer of L’Oisseau–Lyre 1884–1962 (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1994), Musicology Australia, Vol. XVIII (1995): pp. 71–73.
  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of Postcards: from Camerata of St John’s (CD with works by Britten, Mary Mageau, Arnold and Skalkottas), Sounds Australian: Heritage Australia, Vol. 41 (Autumn 1994): p. 43.
  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of Miriam Hyde, Brownhill Creek in Spring (CD) and Dulcie Holland, A Scattering of Leaves (CD), Sounds Australian: The Women’s Issue, Vol. 40 (Summer 1993–94): pp. 49–50.
  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of Canberra New Music Ensemble: Voices in the Landscape (CD), Sounds Australian, Vol. 38 (Winter 1993): pp. 44–45.
  • Macarthur, Sally, Review of Portrait of Australian Composers and Shade of Summer (2 CDs released on Evasound by Robert Allworth), Sounds Australian, Vol. 37 (Autumn 1993): pp. 62–63.

Analytical Articles

  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Analytical Commentary of Reflections in a Misty Landscape’ in Welch, John, Reflections in a Misty Landscape for flute, violin, cello and piano: Study Score (Maybole, NSW: Grevillea  Editions, 1995), pp. 1–8.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Analytical Commentary of Waking Up The Flies IV: On and Off the Ground’ in Henderson, Moya, Waking Up The Flies IV: On and Off the Ground for violin, cello and piano: Study Score (Maybole, NSW: Grevillea Editions, 1995), pp. 1–6.
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Analysis: Sacred Site (1983)’ and brief biography of Moya Henderson, Australian Music Centre Workshop and Seminar Series (Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1988).

Reports

  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Resonances’, International Alliance for Women in Music, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1998).
  • Macarthur, Sally, ‘Report on Resonances’, Women’s Research Centre Newsletter, Vol. 1, No.2 (Summer 1997): pp. 5–7.

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

Towards a Twenty–First Century Feminist Politics of Music is now published by Ashgate.
Anyone buying the book through www.ashgate.com will automatically receive a discount

Sally Macarthur

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

Feminist Aesthetics in Music