Dr Kay Dreyfus
BMus, MMus, PhD (University of Melbourne)
Research Officer
Email :
kay.dreyfus@monash.edu
Phone : (03) 9905 3634
Fax : (03) 9905 3241
Location
: Room 113, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus
Biography
Kay Dreyfus came to Monash University on a research fellowship for women with career interruptions and was then awarded a 5-year ARC research fellowship. In her subsequent twelve years as a research officer, she has facilitated editorially over one hundred publications by the School’s staff, research associates and postgraduate students, as well as by external local and overseas scholars. These have included books, book chapters, refereed journal and encyclopedia articles, conference papers and compact discs. Since 2000, she has commissioned and guest-edited themed issues of nine major Australian and overseas journals. In 1988 she was awarded the International Percy Grainger Medal for her contribution to Grainger scholarship. She is also the School’s Publications Officer.
Select Publications
As Editor
The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger 1901–1914 (Melbourne: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1985)
As Assistant Editor
The Year of Voting Frequently: Politics and Artists in Indonesia’s 2004 Elections, Clayton: Monash Asian Institute [Annual Indonesia Lecture Series 27], 2005 (with Margaret Kartomi)
As Author
Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of Australia’s All-Girl Bands and Orchestras to the End of the Second World War (Strawberry Hills: Currency Press, 1999)
‘Alma Moodie (1898-1943)’, in Die Geige war ihr Leben: Drei Frauen im Portrait, ed. Elena Ostleitner und Ursula Simek (Wien: Vier-Viertel –Verlag, 2000), 233-315
Recent Publications
‘The foreigner, the Musicians’ Union, and the State in 1920s Australia: a nexus of conflict,’ Music and Politics 3/1 (Winter 2009) at http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/
‘A case of discontiguity: musical and cultural irony in the situation of the Lubavitch community of Shepparton, Victoria, pre and post the World Wars,’ in The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality, ed. Fiona Richards (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 117-46 (with Bronia Kornhauser)
‘“I cannot find a corner in the world where I am welcome”: the Australian war-time experience of the Weintraub Syncopators,’ Journal of Musicological Research 26/2-3 (2007), 281–314
‘The pursuit of excellence and social equity in AYO’s Young Australian Concert Artists Program 1999-2007,’ Australasian Music Research 9 (2007), 53-75
‘Jewish liturgical music of South Africa: transmission in the orthodox community of Melbourne’, Victorian Historical Journal 78/2 (2007), 272–85 (with Kerrin Hancock)
‘Reconstructing the vanished musical life of the Shanghai Jewish diaspora: a report’, in Ethnomusicology Forum 13/1 (2004), 101-18 (with Tang Yating)
‘Alma Moodie and the landscape of giftedness,’ Australasian Music Research 7 [2002] (2003), 1-14
Current Research Project
‘Silence and secrets: the Australian wartime experience of the Weintraub Syncopators’