Dr Julie Rickwood

Julie Rickwood is a music and performance researcher and practitioner based in Canberra, Australia. Julie's postdoctoral research has concentrated on Australian popular music, place, gender, and environmental activism; and on community music, cross-cultural exchange and common ground, and, again, environmental activism.

More recently she has also been researching in the field of ecochoreography and, as a Visitor with the Centre for Environmental History, is currently working on a publication exploring environmental and cultural history and heritage.

Julie has published conference papers, journal articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of Popular Music, Stars and Stardom (2018, ANU Press).

In 2013 Julie completed a doctoral research project, “We Are Australian: An ethnographic investigation of the convergence of community music and reconciliation”, a close study of three cross-cultural choral interactions. Earlier graduate research focused on the Australian a cappella scene and the community singing movement. In 1997 she completed a master’s thesis entitled “Liberating Voices: Towards an ethnography of women’s community a cappella choirs in Australia”. This research project examined the intersection of gender, identity and singing.

Julie is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the Australian Historical Association and the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. She is a dancer/choreographer with Somebody’s Aunt and a tenor with the Pop Up Choir.

PhD (ANU); Grad Dip (Ed) (UC)

Popular Music, Community Music, Gender, Place, Heritage, Cross-Cultural Exchange and Common Ground, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology of Performance, Ethnography, Ecomusicology, Ecochoreography, Environmental History. My publications list illustrates aspects of my work in each of these areas of interest.