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Associate Professor Jonathan McIntosh

Associate Dean

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5041
Email: j.mcintosh@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML1.254  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7836-8890

Jonathan is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts.

Current teaching

  • MUS4213 - Research Preparation
  • MUS4116 - Research Project

Background

Jonathan was educated at Queen's University Belfast, UK, in ethnomusicology, music (flute performance) and social anthropology. His research focuses on issues of identity, movement and music in ethnomusicology and anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork on music and dance pedagogy, popular music and children’s songs in Bali, Indonesia, since 2003. He is an accomplished exponent of the Balinese arts, specialising in gamelan music (gamelan gong kebyar) and traditional mask-dance (topeng) performance.

He held lectureships in ethnomusicology at The University of Western Australia (2006–2013) and Monash University (2014–2019) before coming to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, in 2019. He has received numerous teaching awards, including a citation for outstanding contributions to student learning through the Australian Awards for University Teaching (2017). In 2019, he was elected President of the Musicological Society of Australia.

Professional associations

  • 2005-present – British Forum of Ethnomusicology (Member)
  • 2005-present – Society for Ethnomusicology (Member)
  • 2007-present – International Council for Traditional Music (Member)
  • 2008-present – Musicological Society of Australia (Member)

Awards and recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2017 - Australian Government, Department of Education and Training. Award for University Teaching. Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning – Individual.
  • 2017 - Monash University. Fellowship of the Monash Education Academy – Individual
  • 2016 - Monash University. Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence, Special Commendation – Individual
  • 2015 - Monash University. Faculty of Arts Award for Teaching Excellence – Individual
  • 2013 - The University of Western Australia. Faculty of Arts Award for Teaching Excellence – Individual
  • 2009 - 2010 - The University of Western Australia. Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence – Individual, Early Career

Other

  • 2015 - Monash University. Monash Teacher Accelerator Award
  • 2002 - 2005 - Queen’s University Belfast Postgraduate Study Scholarship, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
  • 2001 - Sir Hamilton Harty Music Bursary for Performance Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Research areas and interests

  • Ethnomusicology
  • Popular Music and Culture
  • Dance Anthropology
  • Intercultural Arts
  • Creative Arts Performance as Research

Jonathan welcomes applications from potential honours and postgraduate students interested in working on music, identity, performance, place, diaspora, ethnography, ethnomusicology, dance, Asian performing arts, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, popular music and culture, applied ethnomusicology and community music-making. He has also supervised Western art music and ethnomusicology students focusing on the topic of ‘performance as research’.

Qualifications

  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Other WA registered training organisation, 2022.
  • Doctor or Philosophy, Northern Ireland, 2007.

Research Outputs

2018

Book Chapters

  • McIntosh, J. (2018). Child Musicians and Dancers Performing in Sync: Teaching, Learning and Rehearsing Collectivity in Bali. The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking (213-224). Routledge.

2017

Book Chapters

  • McIntosh, J. (2017). The Women’s International Gamelan Group at the Pondok Pekak: Intercultural Collective Music Making and Performance in Bali, Indonesia. Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency (137-155). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0008.

2016

Book Chapters

  • McIntosh, J., Ramnarine, TK. (2016). Interacting Orchestras, Intercultural Gamelan Learning in Bali and the UK, and Reflections on Ethnographic Research Processes. The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research (380-390). Routledge.

Research Projects

  • The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (Phase 1), Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Infrastructure), 2020, $1,525,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Exploring Hubrid Cultural Compositional Practices based on Film Soundtracks for Chinese and Western Films
  • Doctor of Philosophy, (Radio) Musicking among Aboriginal women: Voice, empowerment and community in the West Kimberley region, Western Australia
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), The Matusiflute in practice: Applying intermusability to explore Sino-Western dizi and flute performance practice

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Lyraflugel: Its History, Design, and Place in Cultural Heritage Collections
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Performing Britishness: Identity and Popular Music Tribute Shows in Perth, Western Australia
  • Master by Research: Confessions and Reflections on Performing Twentieth-century Argentine Piano Music
  • Master by Research: 'These Are the Places I Call Paradise': Community Musicking and Wellbeing in Derby, Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Musicology in Australian Tertiary Insitutions: Curriculum, Characters and Controversy
  • Doctor of Musical Arts: Srimaya's Fall: A Work of Javanese Theatricality and Intercultural Arts in Practice

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy: Telling Stories and Building Community Through Song: Gay Choruses and Music Confronting Heteronormativity, Cultural and Institutional Homophobia and Anti-queer Violence
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Natj Waalanginy (What Singing?): Nyungar Song from the South-West of Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Encounters in the Glocal Mirror: The Role of the Performing Arts in Japan's Christian Century and its Reflection in Early Modern Europe, 1549-1783
  • Doctor of Philosphy: The French Orchestral Trumpet Tradition in Nineteenth-century Paris: Competing Claims of Francois Auguste Dauverne and Jean-Baptiste Arban, 1820-1880
  • Doctor of Philosophy: FAME, FORTUNE, FAILURE: Musicians Surviving Revolutionary France (1789-1875) examined through a Theoretical Model Construct from Max
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Tamil Hip-hop in Malaysia: The History, Politics, and Sounds of Diasporic Identity
  • Master by Research: Romanticism in Two Musical Repertories: A Comparison of the Music of Frederic Chopin and the Rock Group Nirvana
  • Doctor of Musical Arts: ... And Now for the Noise: Contemporary Percussion in Australia, 1970-2000
  • Master by Research: "Playing with Autobiography" the Performer as a Biographer: Viktor Ullmann's Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Square Piano by Arnold Frederick Beck (London, 1780): Restorative Conservation, What May Be Inferred, and a Resultant Teaching Program
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