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Stephen Wild, BA hons (UWA), MA (UWA), PhD (Indiana) T: +61 2 6125 5764 E: Stephen.Wild@anu.edu.au

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Member (and former Research Director) of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Vice President of the International Council for Traditional Music, Chair of the Study Group on the Musics of Oceania, former President of the Musicological Society of Australia, former Council Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Now Visiting Fellow at the School of Music, I teach the course Music in Australian Indigenous Society and participate in other undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate student research projects. As an ethnomusicologist I approach music as a universal phenomenon rather than just a Western one, and as embedded in culture and society rather than as patterns and structures of sounds in themselves. My aim is to promote informed development of knowledge and ideas through reading, listening, performing, analysing, discussing, presenting and writing.

My primary area of research is Australian Indigenous music, with fieldwork experience in central Australia and Arnhem Land, NT, with subsidiary interests in the musics of Asia and the South Pacific. I have edited three CDs on Aboriginal music, two books and three academic journals (Musicology Australia, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Yearbook for Traditional Music), contributed to the Oxford Companion to Australian Music, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific, and the Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, and published numerous articles in academic journals and chapters of books.

School of Music faculty member since 1990.