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Personal profile
Qualifications
BA (Hons1) (ANU), PhD (ANU), Grad Cert Higher Ed (UQ), Grad Cert General and Applied Linguistics (ANU)
Research interests
- Ethnomusicology
- Pacific music / Music of Oceania
- Intangible cultural heritage
- Pacific creole languages
- Language translation
Biography
Kirsty Gillespie has conducted research on music and language in the Pacific since 2003. She received her PhD from ANU in 2008 for her dissertation entitled 'Steep Slopes: Song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea', an interdisciplinary project completed under the supervision of Professors Howard Morphy, Alan Rumsey and Stephen Wild.
Kirsty is currently working on the Australian Government funded project 'Modelling Pacific Creole Languages' led by Distinguished Professor Nicholas Evans. In this project she is involved in documenting the languages of Tok Pisin, Solomons Pijin, and Bislama.
Kirsty is an active member of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and is programme co-chair of the upcoming 48th World Conference to be held in Wellington, New Zealand in 2025.
For a complete list of publications and research outputs please refer to Kirsty's ORCID profile.
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BOOK REVIEW - Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences
Gillespie, K., 2022, In: Yearbook for Traditional Music. 54, 1, p. 73-75Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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ICTM and Its Members: Views from Around the World
Gillespie, K., Avorgbedor, D. K., López-Yánez, M. G., Mohd, A. M. N., Post, J. C. & Rakočević, S., 2022, Celebrating the International Council for Traditional Music: Reflections on the First Seven Decades. S. P. N. C. D. N. (ed.). 1st ed. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press and International Council for Traditional Music, Vol. 1. p. 441-452Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania
Smith, B. B., Diettrich, B. & Gillespie, K., 2022, Celebrating the International Council for Traditional Music: Reflections on the First Seven Decades. S. P. N. C. D. N. (ed.). 1st ed. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press and International Council for Traditional Music, Vol. 1. p. 310-316Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Mining for music: Ethical entanglements in lihir, papua new guinea
Gillespie, K., 30 Nov 2022, The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology. Taylor and Francis, p. 199-208 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Creativity and ceremony in the Repatriation of King Ng:tja
Gillespie, K., 4 Mar 2021, Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music. Berghahn Books, p. 244-254 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review