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DR LINDA KOUVARAS



Contact Details

Organization: Music
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN MUSICOLOGY
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Homepage: http://www.music.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/kouvaras.html
Work: +61 3 8344 4606
Mobile: 0400 100 883
Fax: +61 3 8344 5346
Room: 102
Level: 02
Building: 21 Royal Pde.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Contemporary music; postmodernism; gender issues in music; Australian contemporary music; popular music since 1968 Original composition Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Associate of Music Australia Australian Music Examinations Board 31-Dec-1986
Bachelor of Music (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1988
Master of Music University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Senior Common Room, Ormond College Ordinary 04-Jan-1993
Member Australasian Performing Rights Association Writer full member 01-Jan-2000
Member APRA AMCOS Representation for the Mechanical Right 03-Mar-2006
Member Australian Music Centre Associate Representation 01-Jan-2002
Member Australian Music Centre Ordinary 01-Jan-1992
Member IASPM Aust-NZ Ordinary 01-Jan-2006
Member Association for Research on Mothering Ordinary 19-Dec-2005
Member Assoc. of Women on the Campus of the Univ. of Melb Ordinary 03-Apr-2000
Member American Musicological Society Ordinary 27-Jan-2006
Member Musicological Society of Australia Ordinary 01-Jan-1992

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Hugh Williamson Fellowship (HWF) 31-Dec-1991

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Postmodernism in contemporary Australian art-music: analysis and reappraisal Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Edges of Society: Sexual Murder and the "Normal" Male in Nick Cave's "Song of Joy".
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 2007 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand
    Conference Publication: Music on the Edge: Selected Papers from the 2007 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 99-104
    Publisher: International Association for the Study of Popular Music(Sydney)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • From Port Essington to the Himalayas: Music, Place and Spirituality in Two Recent Australian Works.
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place, and Spirituality
    Publisher: Ashgate
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Journal Articles

  • ”What’s Fat, Anyway? It’s All in the Mind”: Food, Mothering and Fatness in Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Ormond Papers
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 151-66
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  • Book Review: Complete Accord by Miriam Hyde. Sydney: Currency Press, 1991.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Musicology Australia
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2005-6
    Page numbers: 136-140
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  • Editor: Current Issues in Music
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Current Issues in Music
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2007
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  • Response to John Philips
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Notes
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 35-38
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • From Port Essington to the Himalayas: Music, Place and Spirituality in Two Contemporary Australian Compositions
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Soundscapes of Australia: music, place and spirituality
    Publisher: Ashgate
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Journal Articles

  • Complete Accord by Miriam Hyde
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Musicology Australia
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2005/2006
    Page numbers: 136-140
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  • Issues at Stake beyond the 'insuperable melancholy longing for the unity of interpretation with experience'
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Musicology Australia
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 112-122
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  • Modernist versus postmodernist aesthetics: contemporary music criticism and the case of Matthew Hindson
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Musicology Australia
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 2004-2005
    Page numbers: 54-72
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  • Perspectives on Postmodernism: Sampling Australian Composers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Sounds Australian
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 28-37
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Modernist and Postmodernist Arts of Noise: Part 2: From the Clifton Hill Mob to CMO's Phobia.
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005
    Conference Publication: Sound Scripts: Proceedings of the Inaugural Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference 2005
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 54-59
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
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Creative Works

  • ... to enter the dream which includes all dreams: four settings of texts by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    Year: 2006
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: Stations
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Australian Contemporary Chorale(Abbotsford, Victoria)
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  • ... to enter the dream which includes all dreams: four settings of texts by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    Year: 2006
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: M-67305-627-5
    Publisher: Australian Music Centre(The Rocks)
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  • Anagnorisis (53 days): for solo piano and string orchestra
    Year: 2006
    ISBN: M-67305-622-0
    Publisher: Australian Music Centre(The Rocks)
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  • Art & Life: a song cycle for high female voice and piano
    Year: 2006
    ISBN: M-67305-630-5
    Publisher: Australian Music Centre(The Rocks)
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  • The Sky is Melting
    Year: 2006
    ISBN: M-67305-623-7
    Publisher: Australian Music Centre(The Rocks)
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  • Three St Kilda Sketches
    Year: 2006
    ISBN: M-67305-626-8
    Publisher: Australian Music Centre(The Rocks)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Loose Canons: Papers from the National Festival of Women's Music, Canberra, 2001
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Southern Voices(Canberra)
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Book Chapters

  • When the String Snaps: Two Domestic Prison Scenarios
    Year: 2004
    Book: Music Research: New Directions for a New Century
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of 'Music, Sensation, and Sensuality' ed. P. Austin
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
    Volume: 60.2
    Issue: Dec 2003
    Page numbers: 433-434
    Publisher: Music Library Association(Mippleton)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Taking her Breath Away: A Study of Two Pop Songs
    Year: 2004
    Event name: National Festival of Women's Music
    Conference Publication: Loose Canons
    Page numbers: 3 - 10
    Publisher: Southern Voices(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Creative Works

  • St Kilda Sketch No.2
    Year: 2003
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Move Records(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The Semiotic and the Symbolic in Music in Two Sweets-smearing Scenes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australasian Music Research
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2001
    Page numbers: 65-86
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Creative Works

  • CD Liner Notes - 'Giants in the Land'


    Year: 2002
    ISBN: MD 3239
    Publisher: Move Records(Melbourne)
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  • CD Liner notes -- 'Secrets of the Amphitheatre', for solo piano


    Year: 2002
    ISBN: MD 3239
    Publisher: Move Records(Melbourne)
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  • CD Liner Notes -- 'Dying of the Light'
    Year: 2002
    ISBN: MD3239
    Publisher: Move Records(Melbourne)
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  • Secrets of the Amphitheatre
    Year: 2002
    Edition: 1
    Publisher: Move Records(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Creative Works

  • Fragments of Gratification
    Year: 2001
    Edition: 1
    ISBN: 044
    Publisher: Reed Music(Melbourne)
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