19982022

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Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, Melanesian popular music, PNG music, music software, software studies

Biography

With an undergraduate BMus degree in classical guitar performance, Crowdy worked as a musician before travelling to Papua New Guinea in 1992 to teach music at the University of Papua New Guinea. He then moved to Macquarie university. His research and practice has explored Papua New Guinean popular music, remote recording techniques, the music industry in Melanesia and Australia, and music software. His most recent book, Code Musicology, argues for the importance of analysing software and code as it mediates and modulates increasingly more musical activity. His previous book explored the music and socio-political context of the band Sanguma, who mixed ancestral musics with jazz and rock. Crowdy recently led his second Australian Research Council grant titled “Music, mobile phones and social justice in Melanesia”, involving ethnographic work in PNG, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, with an applied component developing regionally relevant, open source music production and media sharing software. An active guitarist, Crowdy has performed and recorded with Torres Strait musician Seaman Dan and Norfolk Islander George Toofie Christian and continues to perform in several local groups.

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