STAFF PROFILE
Dr Tami Gadir
Position:
Lecturer, Music Industry
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School - Media & Communication
Phone:
+61399259084
Email:
tami.gadir@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Tami Gadir is a Lecturer in the Bachelor of Arts (Music Industry) program. She researches, teaches, and supervises on music and society, with a special interest in politics, power, and technology.
Tami Gadir's research addresses the mechanisms that promote or hinder participation in musical life, on the one hand, and the mechanisms in musical life that promote or hinder political imperatives beyond musical life, on the other. Her research traverses disciplinary boundaries of music studies to interrogate the sounds, cultures, and technologies of contemporary, electronically-produced dance music. Her work as a DJ and her affiliation with club scenes has been formative for this research. Tami's critical approach to music studies is grounded in a commitment to empiricism, historicism, and a politics of feminist anticapitalism.
Tami teaches on, and offers supervision in, music’s intersections with society, culture, politics, power, labour, and technology.
Tami teaches on, and offers supervision in, music’s intersections with society, culture, politics, power, labour, and technology.
The Music Studies Reading Group runs once a month from February to October and is supported by the Screen and Sound Cultures Research Network in the School of Media and Communication. Students and staff are welcome.
Please visit https://www.tamigadir.com/ for updates and forthcoming publications, including Tami's new book Dance Music: A Critical Study of an Ordinary Culture (Bloomsbury Academic) due out in 2023.
- PhD, Music (University of Edinburgh)
- Werner, A.,Gadir, T.,De Boise, S. (2020). Broadening research in gender and music practice In: Popular Music, 39, 636 - 651
- Gadir, T. (2018). Understanding Agency from the Decks to the Dance Floor In: Music Theory Online, 24, 1 - 15
- Gadir, T. (2017). Forty-Seven DJs, Four Women: Meritocracy, Talent and Postfeminist Politics In: Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 9, 50 - 72
- Gadir, T. (2017). "I Don't Play Girly House Music": Women, sonic stereotyping, and the dancing DJ In: The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender, Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom
- Gadir, T. (2016). Resistance or Reiteration? Rethinking Gender in DJ Cultures In: Contemporary Music Review, 35, 115 - 129
- Gadir, T. (2013). Techno Intersections: An Aural Account of Research in Edinburgh In: Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 5, 1 - 5
6 PhD Current Supervisions
- Electronic Music Accelerator Evaluation (Administered by The Push - Youth Music Organisation). Funded by: Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund 2018 onwards- Grant from (2021 to 2021)