Projects per year
Personal profile
Community service
I serve on the editorial board of The University of Chicago monograph series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology and have served on the boards of the journals Musicology Australia, Acta Musicologica, Ethnomusicology Forum, Wacana Seni: Journal of Arts Discourse, Journal of Musicological Research, and others.
Research interests
Music-cultures of Sumatra and Southeast Asia generally; performing arts archives, historical ethnomusicology, organology, performativity, public arts policy, children's music, youth orchestras
Monash teaching commitment
Guest lectures
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Southeast Asian Arts
- Ethnomusicology
- Youth Orchestras
- Organology
- Performativity
Projects
- 9 Finished
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Revitalising the Musical Arts of Indonesia's Lampung Province
Kartomi, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Barendregt, B. (Partner Investigator (PI)) & Martiara, R. (Partner Investigator (PI))
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
1/01/16 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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The Changing Identity and Sustainability of the Music-Cultures and Worldviews of the Riau Islands' Sea Nomads and Sedentary Malays
Kartomi, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Mora, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Benjamin, G. (Partner Investigator (PI)) & Chou, C. (Partner Investigator (PI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
3/01/12 → 31/05/16
Project: Research
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Sound Footings: creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives
Kartomi, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Burrows, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rogers, V. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Tunley, D. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
1/01/06 → 31/12/06
Project: Research
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Inter-court relations in the Spread of Nobat and Gamelan as legitimacy symbols in the Malay world (c.Thirteenth to Twentieth centuries)
Kartomi, M., 2024, Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume One. Santaella, M. A. (ed.). 1st ed. Leiden Netherlands: Brill, p. 183-213 31 p. (Brill's Southeast Asian Library; vol. 11).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Lives in musicology: Reflections on my life as an ethnomusicologist, Australian, and Global Citizen
Kartomi, M., 2022, In: Acta Musicologica. 94, 1, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other
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The ancestral Gamolan xylophone and its recent transformation in Indonesia's Lampung Province, Sumatra: 1980s-2000s
Kartomi, M., 2022, In: The Galpin Society Journal: for the study of musical instruments. 75, p. 110-126 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Musicological explorer: Margaret Kartomi in her own words
Kartomi, M., 2020, 7 p. Basel Switzerland : International Musicological Society (IMS).Research output: Other contribution › Other
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Obituary: Remembering Lance Castles (1937–2020)
Kartomi, M., 2020, In: Inside Indonesia. 141, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other
Prizes
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Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society
Kartomi, M. (Recipient), 2004
Prize: Election to learned society
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Cultural Award for Traditional Indonesian Arts (Anugerah Kebudayaan dan Maestro Seni Tradisi AKPM)
Kartomi, M. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: National/international honour
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Don and Joan Squires Award for Voluntary Services to Musicology
Kartomi, Margaret (Recipient), 2016
Prize: National/international honour
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Activities
- 3 Editorial responsibility
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Australasian Music Research (Journal)
Margaret Kartomi (Guest editor), David Pear (Guest editor) & Kay Dreyfus (Guest editor)
2007 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Ethnomusicology Forum (Journal)
Margaret Kartomi (Guest editor) & Kay Dreyfus (Editor in chief)
2004 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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TAASA Review (Journal)
Margaret Kartomi (Guest editor)
1999Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility