Assoc/Prof Victoria Rogers

Associate Professor
Academic Staff (Music)

Contact details

Address

Academic Staff (Music)
The University of Western Australia (M413)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2791

Fax

6488 1124

Email

victoria.rogers@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA DipEd MPhil PhD W.Aust., AMusA

Biography

Victoria Rogers is a graduate of The University of Western Australia, having being awarded a BA, Dip. Ed., M.Phil. and PhD. As an undergraduate, Victoria was the recipient of the University Choral Society prizes for Music 20 and Music 30; she was also awarded a Hackett scholarship, which she declined in favour of a fifteen-year career as a professional cellist. This career led her to full-time appointments in the WA Symphony Orchestra and the State Orchestra of Victoria (the latter as co-principal cellist), and to casual appointments in the Sydney, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. In 1996 she won an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for doctoral study, which she completed in 2000.

Victoria joined the staff of the School of Music upon completion of her PhD, first as Manager then as Director of the Callaway Centre, a research centre based in the School of Music. She established a state-of-the-art archival facility and procured over half a million dollars of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for the development of the Callaway Centre’s archival collections. In 2006 she was appointed to the position of Lecturer in Musicology in the School of Music, and in 2009 was promoted to Associate Professor.

Key research

Victoria Rogers’ main area of research is early- to mid-twentieth century music, with a particular focus upon Australian composition and performance in the post-colonial period. Her doctoral dissertation was on the music of the Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks; this research formed the basis of her monograph entitled The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Ashgate, 2009). Victoria has also written journal articles on the music of Glanville-Hicks and has co-edited a book on the work of the British social anthropologist and ethnomusicologist John Blacking, entitled The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society (to which she also contributed two co-authored chapters) (UWA Press, 2005). Her more recent research on Blacking, sponsored by an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant, has resulted in two articles published in the prestigious international journal Ethnomusicology. The Australian pianist Eileen Joyce, who enjoyed a glittering international career in the mid-twentieth century, is the subject of a book which Victoria is currently writing together with Emeritus Professor David Tunley.

Publications

Rogers, Victoria, ‘John Blacking, Composer’, Ethnomusicology, 57/ 2 (2013): 311-29.

Rogers, Victoria and Meyer, John, 'Harmonising Campus and Community: University Music', in Jenny Gregory (ed.), Seeking Wisdom; A Centenary History of The University of Western Australia (Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2013), pp. 307-20.

Rogers, Victoria, 'John Blacking: Social and Political Activist', Ethnomusicology, 56/1 (2012): 63-85.

Rogers, Victoria, The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).

Rogers, Victoria and Symons, David (eds), The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society (Crawley: UWA Press, 2005).

Rogers, Victoria and Symons, David, ‘Introduction’ in Victoria Rogers and David Symons (eds), The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society (Crawley: UWA Press, 2005).

Rogers, Victoria and Malacari, Gillian, ‘Blacking and His Time: The Influenced and the Influential’ in Victoria Rogers and David Symons (eds), The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society (Crawley: UWA Press, 2005).

Rogers, Victoria, ‘East Meets West in Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s The Transposed Heads’, Context, 27–28 (2004): 51–70.

Rogers, Victoria, ‘Rethinking Peggy Glanville-Hicks’, Musicology Australia, 26 (2003): 65-103.

Rogers, Victoria, Review of Peggy Glanville-Hicks: A Transposed Life by James Murdoch, Musicology Australia, 26 (2003): 142–6.

Rogers, Victoria, 'A Music Outreach Programme for the UWA School of Music', report commissioned by the School of Music (1999), pp. 1–34.

Rogers, Victoria, Baldock, Cora and Mulligan, Denise, 'What Difference Does it Make? A Pilot Study of Women in the Performing and Visual Arts in Western Australia', report commissioned by the Australia Council and the (then) WA Department for the Arts (1993), pp. 1–132.

Rogers, Victoria, 'Patterns and Practices: Grants and Gender in the Arts', report commissioned by the (then) WA Department for the Arts (1990), pp. 1–55.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Victoria teaches music language studies (tonal and post-tonal harmony, form and structure), research methods for honours students, and Western music history. She co-ordinates the music language units, and supervises honours and doctoral students.

Future research

The Pianism of Eileen Joyce.

Funding received

2008: ARC Discovery Grant: Communicative Human Musicality: A cross-cultural comparative study of dance, singing and musical instrument skills in 12–15 year olds. $305,000 awarded.

2008: UWA Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Publication Grant towards preparing the final manuscript for the book The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Aldershot: Ashgate,2009). $2,000 awarded.

2006: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Grant: Sound Footings: creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives. Partner organisations: Monash University and the National
Library of Australia. $175,000 awarded.

2005: UWA Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme Grant for preparing the 2006 ARC Linkage Infrastructure (LIEF) grant application. $10,277 awarded.

2004: UWA Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Publication Grant towards the cost of publishing The Legacy of John Blacking: Essays on Music, Culture and Society, Perth: UWA Press, 2005. $1,200 awarded.

2004: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Grant: Preserving Australia’s Sound Heritage: creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives. Partner organisations: Monash University and the National Film and Sound Archive. $338,933 awarded.

2004: UWA Research Grant for writing the book The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks. $15,000 awarded.

2003: UWA VCDF, FAHSS & School of Music funding for digitising the film (moving and still images) and music recordings in the Callaway Centre’s John Blacking Collection. $15,000 awarded.

2003: UWA VCDF Grant towards the cost of hosting the international conference Music-Culture Society: a three-day symposium celebrating the work and legacy of John Blacking. $5,000 awarded.

2002: WA Lotteries Grant: Management Plan for the Peter Burgis Australian Performing Arts Archive. $3,767 awarded.

Languages

German, French

Memberships

Musicological Society of Australia
Australian Music Centre

Honours and awards

Australian Postgraduate Award for doctoral study
University of Western Australia
Hackett Scholarship for postgraduate study
University of WA Choral Society Prize for Music 20
University of WA Choral Society Prize for Music 30

Previous positions

Director, Callaway Centre, School of Music, The University of Western Australia

Teaching

Victoria teaches music language studies (tonal and post-tonal harmony, form and structure), research methods for honours students, and Western music history. She co-ordinates the music language units, and supervises honours and doctoral students.

Current external positions

Member, Advisory Panel for the National Registry of Recorded Sound, National Film and Sound Archive.

Current projects

Research for a book provisionally entitled The Pianism of Eileen Joyce, co-authored with Emeritus Professor David Tunley.

Further research on the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks, specifically a contextualization and structural analysis of the music for the last of her ballets, A Season in Hell.

Research profile

Research profile and publications