Tami Gadir
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tami Gadir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tami |
| FAMILY NAME | Gadir |
| SIGNATURE | GADIR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How punk and post-punk politics mirror the contemporary left
This article addresses the political tensions within left-wing underground or do-it-yourself punk and post-punk music scenes in Melbourne, Australia. We use interviews to show how participants tend to attribute their left-wing political perspectives to their involvement in this music scene while qualifying such perspectives with their personal biographies. Participants address both the strengths and limitations of punk and post-punk cultural iden…
Kylie Minogue as a gay icon
Music as Magic
Introduction Music scholarship across genres is often concerned with music's metaphysical and ephemeral effects on individuals, communities, and society. These scholarly framings constitute a concept that we refer to here as “the magic of music”. Using this framing, this article addresses the ways that the magic is undermined by a range of worldly, non-magical realities, using the case study of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and their devastatin…
This felt more like a conversation’
This article argues that problematic gender norms in electronic music contexts – namely, their association with masculinity and overrepresentation by cis men – can be subverted through alternative education methods. We use the case study of the Electronic Music Accelerator (EMA) program, run by youth organization The Push in Melbourne, Australia, to illustrate this. Specifically, we evaluate strategies used in the EMA program to teach Ableton and…
Broadening research in gender and music practice
This article builds on research about gender in music practice, concerned with skewed musical canons, ratios and quotas of gender representation, unfair treatment and power dynamics, and the exclusionary enmeshment with music technologies. The aim is to critically discuss what 'gender' is understood to be, how it has been studied and how gendered power has been challenged, in order to suggest new routes for research on gender and music practice. …
Understanding Agency from the Decks to the Dance Floor
Agency is a concept employed widely and in varied ways across interdisciplinary music studies, from the philosophical to the experimental scientific. This article explores some of the theories and methodologies that inform such perspectives, bringing them into conversation with one another. It begins with a conceptual summary juxtaposing the accounts of musical agency that different fields employ and traces their intellectual influences. The arti…
Forty-Seven DJs, Four Women
In 2016, only four of forty-seven DJs booked for Musikkfest, a festival in Oslo, Norway, were women. Following this, a local DJ published an objection to this imbalance in a local arts and entertainment magazine. Her editorial provoked booking agents to defend their position on the grounds that they prioritise skill and talent when booking DJs, and by implication, that they do not prioritise equality. The booking agents' responses, on social medi…
Resistance or Reiteration? Rethinking Gender in DJ Cultures
Many practices of contemporary DJ-driven electronic dance music derive from 1970s club scenes in the United States, which were welcoming spaces for people who otherwise encountered prejudice for their gender identities and sexual orientations. Through their prominence in dance music literature, these scenes, along with British rave culture, have come to represent a broader conception of a global ‘alternative dance music culture’ that incorporates…
Techno Intersections
Resistance or Reiteration? Rethinking Gender in DJ Cultures
Many practices of contemporary DJ-driven electronic dance music derive from 1970s club scenes in the United States, which were welcoming spaces for people who otherwise encountered prejudice for their gender identities and sexual orientations. Through their prominence in dance music literature, these scenes, along with British rave culture, have come to represent a broader conception of a global ‘alternative dance music culture’ that incorporates…
Broadening research in gender and music practice
This article builds on research about gender in music practice, concerned with skewed musical canons, ratios and quotas of gender representation, unfair treatment and power dynamics, and the exclusionary enmeshment with music technologies. The aim is to critically discuss what 'gender' is understood to be, how it has been studied and how gendered power has been challenged, in order to suggest new routes for research on gender and music practice. …
Forty-Seven DJs, Four Women
In 2016, only four of forty-seven DJs booked for Musikkfest, a festival in Oslo, Norway, were women. Following this, a local DJ published an objection to this imbalance in a local arts and entertainment magazine. Her editorial provoked booking agents to defend their position on the grounds that they prioritise skill and talent when booking DJs, and by implication, that they do not prioritise equality. The booking agents' responses, on social medi…
This felt more like a conversation’
This article argues that problematic gender norms in electronic music contexts – namely, their association with masculinity and overrepresentation by cis men – can be subverted through alternative education methods. We use the case study of the Electronic Music Accelerator (EMA) program, run by youth organization The Push in Melbourne, Australia, to illustrate this. Specifically, we evaluate strategies used in the EMA program to teach Ableton and…
Understanding Agency from the Decks to the Dance Floor
Agency is a concept employed widely and in varied ways across interdisciplinary music studies, from the philosophical to the experimental scientific. This article explores some of the theories and methodologies that inform such perspectives, bringing them into conversation with one another. It begins with a conceptual summary juxtaposing the accounts of musical agency that different fields employ and traces their intellectual influences. The arti…
Techno Intersections
Resistance or Reiteration? Rethinking Gender in DJ Cultures
Many practices of contemporary DJ-driven electronic dance music derive from 1970s club scenes in the United States, which were welcoming spaces for people who otherwise encountered prejudice for their gender identities and sexual orientations. Through their prominence in dance music literature, these scenes, along with British rave culture, have come to represent a broader conception of a global ‘alternative dance music culture’ that incorporates…
Forty-Seven DJs, Four Women
In 2016, only four of forty-seven DJs booked for Musikkfest, a festival in Oslo, Norway, were women. Following this, a local DJ published an objection to this imbalance in a local arts and entertainment magazine. Her editorial provoked booking agents to defend their position on the grounds that they prioritise skill and talent when booking DJs, and by implication, that they do not prioritise equality. The booking agents' responses, on social medi…
Understanding Agency from the Decks to the Dance Floor
Agency is a concept employed widely and in varied ways across interdisciplinary music studies, from the philosophical to the experimental scientific. This article explores some of the theories and methodologies that inform such perspectives, bringing them into conversation with one another. It begins with a conceptual summary juxtaposing the accounts of musical agency that different fields employ and traces their intellectual influences. The arti…
Broadening research in gender and music practice
This article builds on research about gender in music practice, concerned with skewed musical canons, ratios and quotas of gender representation, unfair treatment and power dynamics, and the exclusionary enmeshment with music technologies. The aim is to critically discuss what 'gender' is understood to be, how it has been studied and how gendered power has been challenged, in order to suggest new routes for research on gender and music practice. …
Music as Magic
Introduction Music scholarship across genres is often concerned with music's metaphysical and ephemeral effects on individuals, communities, and society. These scholarly framings constitute a concept that we refer to here as “the magic of music”. Using this framing, this article addresses the ways that the magic is undermined by a range of worldly, non-magical realities, using the case study of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and their devastatin…
This felt more like a conversation’
This article argues that problematic gender norms in electronic music contexts – namely, their association with masculinity and overrepresentation by cis men – can be subverted through alternative education methods. We use the case study of the Electronic Music Accelerator (EMA) program, run by youth organization The Push in Melbourne, Australia, to illustrate this. Specifically, we evaluate strategies used in the EMA program to teach Ableton and…
How punk and post-punk politics mirror the contemporary left
This article addresses the political tensions within left-wing underground or do-it-yourself punk and post-punk music scenes in Melbourne, Australia. We use interviews to show how participants tend to attribute their left-wing political perspectives to their involvement in this music scene while qualifying such perspectives with their personal biographies. Participants address both the strengths and limitations of punk and post-punk cultural iden…
Kylie Minogue as a gay icon
Music History and Culture (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (3 works)