Associate Professor Craig J. De Wilde
BA (Whittier College), MFA (University of California, Irvine), PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)
On Leave until July 2010
Email: Craig.deWilde@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9905 5093
Fax: (03) 9905 3241
Location: Room 121, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus
Biography
Craig De Wilde has a wide range of research interests, with publications analysing topics from both art music and popular music traditions. A graduate of the University of California, Craig received his MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in music composition from the Irvine campus in 1982, and a PhD in musicology from the Santa Barbara campus in 1991. The following year, Craig began a fixed-term lectureship at Monash University, converting to a continuing position in 1994. He previously served as Head of School from 1998-1999, and returned as Head in 2003 to the present. In addition to his teaching and research in music history, Craig also maintains a high profile in the popular media, making regular contributions of music commentary to newspaper, television and radio on a variety of musical topics. Since 1998, Craig has presented a weekly one-hour radio program - The Resident Musicologist - on ABC 774AM Radio in Melbourne. Craig has also served as both Chapter President and National President of the Musicological Society of Australia.
Research Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century music; general music history; popular music of America and Australia; music industry; music composition
Recent Publications
‘“One iced decaf double venti frappuccino and the Ray Charles please”: the Starbucks coffee company and the changing face of the music industry’ in Musical Islands. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009 (in press)
‘Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss’, in The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, eds. Joseph Auner and Jennifer Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (in press)
‘The letters of James H. George: a union musician during the American Civil War’, Musicology Australia 28 (2006), 90-100
‘Out of Africa: recent publications on African Music’, Musicology Australia 27 (2006), 129-32.
‘The meteoric rise of controversial new Indonesian artist Inul Daratista’, Music Business Journal www.musicjournal.org 3/1, April 2003)
‘”The world’s leading classical music label”: the global success of Naxos Records’, Music Business Journal www.musicjournal.org 2/2, November 2002)
‘Canto Gregorian and frock rock: EMI and the popularisation of Gregorian chant’, Music Business Journal, www.musicjournal.org 2/2, November 2002)
Work In Progress
Article
‘The role of the commercial jingle as musical identity: commerce, coercion and context’