Position: Honorary Senior Lecturer
School and/or Centres: Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies
Email: kate.bowan@anu.edu.au
Phone: 612 54251
Location: SRWB 3.49
Researcher profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bowan-cj
Kate Bowan is a cultural musicologist whose work explores the intersections between musicology and social and political history with a particular focus on transnational history. Formal and informal networks and personal connections inform her current research interests which focus on questions of internationalism, cosmopolitanism and transnational history with reference to early twentieth-century musical modernisms.
Research Interests: Cultural musicology, musical heritage, music and nineteenth-century political culture (Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada), archiving, history of music collecting, intangible heritage, transnational history and biography.
- Internationalism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and the International Society for Contemporary Music (1922-1952)
- Commemoration and heritage in the 1939 London Festival of Music for the People and the musical pageants by the communist composer, Alan Bush
- The Anthology of Australian Music on Disc and the Bicentennial: Art Music, Musical Monuments and Nation-Buillding
- Sounds of Empire: Popular Politics and Music in the Nineteenth Century (Secondary Investigator)