Donna Weston
Donna Weston is Deputy Director (Learning and Teaching), Head of Popular Music, and Program Director of the Bachelor of Music with Honours at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia. She is also the Conservatorium’s International Advisor. Donna lectures in popular music history and semiotic analysis and has a particular passion for collaborative learning and peer-assessment as integral to popular music education. She is convenor of the Musical Livelihoods stream of the Conservatorium’s Research Centre. As a Program Director over the past 12 years, Donna has made significant and on-going changes to several degree designs, keeping in line with both emerging music pedagogy and research as well as the rapid changes in the music industry. Currently, she is engaged in exploring pathways for the intersection of Popular Music Studies and popular music practice at tertiary level, and musical livelihoods for all music graduates. A significant component of her research is also situated in ecomusicology.
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Music Beyond the Classroom: Interview with Film and Television Composer, Will Blair
Will and I go way back. I still remember the [...]
From Perfection to Authenticity, Orchestra-style
At what point in the music-learning process can creativity be [...]
Music Beyond the Classroom: Interview with Stage Manager, Sami Slovy
For this installment of our music beyond the classroom series, [...]
I wrote a song a day for a month. Here’s what I learned.
Are you a songwriter? Do you want to be a [...]
Viral teaching: How the coronavirus has changed my work
The start of corona It would be extremely difficult to [...]
Music Beyond the Classroom: Interview with Britt Daniel from Spoon
I still remember the day that my graduate advisor casually [...]