The Body in Music

Jane W. Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing arts at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. She is also Deputy Director of the $24M Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has more than 100 publications, including five books, all focused on the topic of performance studies, with the scope ranging from the development of musical skills through to the factors contributing to expressive musical performance from contemporary to Baroque performance. She was active as an opera singer for twenty years and now devotes time to directing for the stage. Mary Broughton is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Queensland. Her PhD from the University of Western Sydney applied experimental and empirical methods to examine the potency of bodily gesture in communicating expressive solo marimba performance to the observer. Publications related to music performance include articles in top-ranking music psychology journals, original compositions, and appearances on CD recordings. A percussionist, her performance work spans solo, chamber, and orchestral contexts at national and international levels.