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Associate Professor Christopher Coady
BA (Magna Cum Laude) Skidmore College (USA), PhD UNSW
Associate Dean (Research Education)
Address
C41 - Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The University of Sydney
Christopher Coady is an historical musicologist and jazz specialist. He is the author ofJohn Lewis and the Challenge of “Real” Black Music(University of Michigan Press, 2016) and a range of articles on historic and contemporary jazz practice, music research training, and African American art music history. His sole authored and co-authored work has appeared in the British Journal of Music Education, Jazz Research Journal, American Music, Jazz and Culture, and the Musical Quarterly. He teaches the undergraduate courses This is Music, Jazz Musicology and Analysis, Jazz Riots and Revolutions and the postgraduate seminar Researching Creative Process.
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| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| The Musical Flesh: A Phenomenology of Enactive Musical Imagination in Improvised Double Bass Performance | Samuel DOBSON |
| Performing "Assyrian-ness" | Lolita EMMANUEL |
Selected publications
John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music
(University of Michigan Press, 2016)
Publications
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Books
- Coady, C. (2016). John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Webb, M., Coady, C. (2024). The Spiritual in Australia: Practices, Discourse and Transformations, 1879–1950. In Harris, A., Bracknell, C. (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, (pp. 72-90). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Coady, C. (2016). Shotgun weddings and bohemian dreams: Jazz, family values and storytelling in Australian film. In Bruce Johnson (Eds.), Antipodean Riffs: Essays on Australasian Jazz, (pp. 135-152). Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing.
Journals
- Coady, C. (2021). 'Exiled from the Musical Activities of His Homeland': Dean Dixon in the Australian and African American Press During the Era of Immigration Reform. Musicology Australia, 43(1-2), 1-21. [More Information]
- Rose, J., Coady, C. (2021). Memory and Mindfulness in the Musical Rituals of the Necks. Jazz & Culture, 4(1), 68-86. [More Information]
- Coady, C. (2020). "Our Brothers Across Canal": Forging Intraracial Unity through Western Art Music Practice in Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century New Orleans. Musical Quarterly, 103, 281-310. [More Information]
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2024
- Webb, M., Coady, C. (2024). The Spiritual in Australia: Practices, Discourse and Transformations, 1879–1950. In Harris, A., Bracknell, C. (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia, (pp. 72-90). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
2021
- Coady, C. (2021). 'Exiled from the Musical Activities of His Homeland': Dean Dixon in the Australian and African American Press During the Era of Immigration Reform. Musicology Australia, 43(1-2), 1-21. [More Information]
- Rose, J., Coady, C. (2021). Memory and Mindfulness in the Musical Rituals of the Necks. Jazz & Culture, 4(1), 68-86. [More Information]
2020
- Coady, C. (2020). "Our Brothers Across Canal": Forging Intraracial Unity through Western Art Music Practice in Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century New Orleans. Musical Quarterly, 103, 281-310. [More Information]
2019
- Coady, C. (2019). New Orleans Rhythm and Blues, African American Tourism, and the Selling of a Progressive South. American Music, 37(1), 95-112. [More Information]
2017
- Coady, C., Webb, M. (2017). Resisting Best Practice in Australian Practice Based Jazz Doctorates. British Journal of Music Education, 34(1), 71-80. [More Information]
2016
- Coady, C. (2016). John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [More Information]
- Coady, C. (2016). Shotgun weddings and bohemian dreams: Jazz, family values and storytelling in Australian film. In Bruce Johnson (Eds.), Antipodean Riffs: Essays on Australasian Jazz, (pp. 135-152). Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing.
2015
- Coady, C. (2015). Shotgun weddings and bohemian dreams: Jazz, family values and storytelling in Australian film. Jazz Research Journal, 8(1-2), 144-162.
2013
- Coady, C., Nelson, K. (2013). Extra-curricular Undergraduate Research Training: Notes on the Pedagogical Practices Behind the Sydney Undergraduate Journal of Musicology. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 10(2), 1-13.
2012
- Coady, C. (2012). AfroModernist Subversion of Film Noir Conventions in John Lewis' Scores to Sait-on Jamais (1957) and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). Musicology Australia, 34(1), 1-31. [More Information]
2011
- Coady, C. (2011). From Gospel to Gates: Modal Blending in African-American Musical Discourse before the Signifyin(g) Monkey. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 8(1), 1-17. [More Information]
2009
- Coady, C. (2009). Ellington in the Third Stream: A new perspective on the fugal works of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Jazzforschung, 41(1), 65-82.
Selected Grants
2016
- Zulu, the NAACP and Civil Rights Ideology in New Orleans (1960-1970), Coady C, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University/Bjorn Barnheim Research Fellowship
In the media
Chris Coady recently spoke with ABC's Geoff Wood about the iconic album “A Love Supreme”, recorded by the John Coltrane Quartet in December 1964 and released in February 1965. You can listen to the interview here.