Dr Gavin Carfoot
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Music
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.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer (Music and Sound)
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Practice,
Music
Keywords
Music, Popular music studies, Popular music education, Australian Indigenous music, Music and material culture
Discipline
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)
- Master of Music (University of Queensland)
Selected publications
- Carfoot G, Millard B, (2019) Tertiary popular music education: Institutions, innovation and tradition. In Z Moir, GD Smith & B Powell, The Bloomsbury handbook of popular music education: Perspectives and practices, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 59-72.
- Carfoot G, Millard B, Bennett S, Allan C, (2017) Parallel, series, and integrated: Models of tertiary popular music education. In Z Moir, GD Smith, M Brennan, P Kirkman & S Rambarran, The Routledge research companion to popular music education, Routledge, pp. 139-150.
- Bartleet B, Carfoot G, (2016) Arts-based service learning with Indigenous communities: Engendering artistic citizenship. In W Bowman, D Elliott & M Silverman, Artistic citizenship : artisty, social responsibility, and ethical praxis, Oxford University Press, pp. 339-358.
- Bartleet B, Carfoot G, Murn A, (2016) Exploring university-community partnerships in arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples and arts organizations. In A Power, D Bennett, BL Bartleet & N Sunderland, Engaging first peoples in arts-based service learning: Towards respectful and mutually beneficial educational practices [Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, Volume 18], Springer, pp. 31-49.
- Carfoot G, (2016) 'Enough is enough': songs and messages about alcohol in remote Central Australia, Popular Music, 35 (2), pp. 222-230.
- 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, 38 (2), pp. 173-191.
- Carfoot G, (2016) Musical discovery, colonialism, and the possibilities of intercultural communication through music, Popular Communication, 14 (3), pp. 178-186.
- Bartleet B, Carfoot G, (2013) Desert harmony: Stories of collaboration between Indigenous musicians and university students, International Education Journal, 12 (1), pp. 180-196.
- Carfoot G, (2008) Competition Hertz : the culture and practice of car audio competitions, Continuum, 22 (5), pp. 667-674.
- Carfoot G, (2006) Acoustic, electric and virtual noise : the cultural identity of the guitar, Leonardo Music Journal, 16, pp. 35-39.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Gavin, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Sound Mobility: Smartphones and Tablets as Ubiquitous Polymedia Music Production Studios
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Whelan - Big hART's 30 Years of Practice: Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sandra Gattenhof, Emeritus Professor Brad Haseman
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)