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Talisha Goh

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Talisha Goh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice, Musicology

School of Performing Arts
155 Squires
talisha@vt.edu

 

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Hailing from Australia, Talisha Goh (she/they) is a Visiting Instructor at Virginia Tech. Talisha’s work has centred upon the experiences of current and historical marginalised groups in Australian music, with an emphasis on fostering equity and sustainability throughout the performing arts sector. This interest is reflected throughout her diverse research activity in publications including Frontiers in Psychology, Musicology Australia, Tempo, British Journal of Music Education, Personnel Review, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. She is currently working on her first book, The Music of Elsie Hamilton: Gender, Spirituality, and Microtonality (Routledge).Hailing from Australia, Talisha Goh (she/they) is a Visiting Instructor at Virginia Tech. Talisha’s work has centred upon the experiences of current and historical marginalised groups in Australian music, with an emphasis on fostering equity and sustainability throughout the performing arts sector. This interest is reflected throughout her diverse research activity in publications including Frontiers in Psychology, Musicology Australia, Tempo, British Journal of Music Education, Personnel Review, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. She is currently working on her first book, The Music of Elsie Hamilton: Gender, Spirituality, and Microtonality (Routledge).

  • Gender and music
  • 20th and 21st century Australian music
  • Performing arts industries and careers
  • Esotericism/Occultism and music
  • Tuning and intonation

  • PhD, Musicology, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University (Australia)
  • Bachelor of Music (Honours), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Edith Cowan University (Australia)
  • Bachelor of Science, University of Western Australia (Australia)

  • Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University (Australia)

Books
Forthcoming
Goh, T. The Music of Elsie Hamilton: Gender, Spirituality, and Microtonality. Routledge.

Journal articles
2024
Goh, T, C. Hope, L. Devenish, M. S. Barrett, N. Canham, R. L. Burke, and C. Hall. Beyond the gender binary: A survey of gender marginalisation and social boundaries in Australian Jazz and Improvisation. Women in Performance Science [Special Issue]. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1412511. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1412511

2022
Canham, N., T. Goh, M. S. Barrett, C. Hope, L. Devenish, M. Park, R. L. Burke, C. Hall. Gender as performance, experience, identity and variable: A systematic review of gender research in jazz and improvisation. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.987420

2020
Goh, T. From the other side: Feminist aesthetics in Australian musicology. Tempo - A Quarterly Review of Modern Music, 74(292), 21-9. doi: 10.1017/S0040298219001141

Hennekam, S., S. Macarthur, D. Bennett, C. Hope, and T. Goh. Women composers’ use of online communities of practice to build and support their careers. Personnel Review, 49(1), 215-30. doi: 10.1108/PR-02-2018-0059

2019
Bennett, D., S. Hennekam, S. Macarthur, C. Hope, and T. Goh. Hiding gender: How women composers manage gender identity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 20-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2018.07.003

Hennekam ,S., D. Bennett, S. Macarthur, T. Goh, and C. Hope. An International Perspective on Managing Career as a Woman Composer. International Journal of Arts Management, 21(3), 4-13. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dawn_Bennett/publication/333583088_IJAM_21_3-01-Hennekam/links/5cf5bc5d92851c4dd026e146/IJAM-21-3-01-Hennekam.pdf

2018
Bennett, D., S. Macarthur, C. Hope, T. Goh, and S. Hennekam. Creating a career as a woman composer: Implications for music in higher education. British Journal of Music Education, 35(3), 237-53. doi: 10.1017/S0265051718000104

2017
Macarthur, S., D. Bennett, T. Goh, S. Hennekam, and C. Hope. The Rise and Fall, and the Rise (Again) of Feminist Research in Music: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’. Musicology Australia, 39(2), 73-95. doi: 10.1080/08145857.2017.1392740

Book chapters
2024
Devenish, L., Goh, T. New directions in Australian art music: The curatorial, creative and conceptual, in Harris, A., and C. Bracknell (Eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Australian Music, Cambridge University Press.

Other
Rusak, H., Goh, T., Barbe, F., & Newman, R., and Blevins, P. (2021). Breathing through the pandemic: The role of the creative arts, including digital storytelling and performances on community wellbeing. Department of Jobs, Science and Innovation Western Australia. https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/960387/Breathing-through-the-pandemic.pdf

Talisha is an adjunct research fellow at Monash University and maintains ongoing research collaborations with some of the top musician-scholars in Australia, including Prof. Cat Hope, Dr Louise Devenish, and Dr Nicole Canham.