Dr Francis Dreyfus - Researcher Profile

Biography

Kay Dreyfus came to Monash University on a research fellowship for women with career interruptions and was then awarded a 5-year ARC research fellowship. In her subsequent fifteen years as a research officer in the School of Music-Conservatorium, she has facilitated editorially some two hundred publications by the School’s staff, research associates and postgraduate students, as well as by external local and overseas scholars. These have included books, book chapters, refereed journal and encyclopedia articles, conference papers and compact discs. Since 2000, she has commissioned and guest-edited themed issues of twelve major Australian and overseas journals. Her research interests lie in Australian music history of the early twentieth century, and she has published on a range of topics including the Musicians’ Union, and women and immigrant musicians. In 1988 she was awarded the International Percy Grainger Medal for her contribution to Grainger scholarship.   She is presently researching the professional reception of post-war immigrant musicians and is currently employed as a Research Associate on the History of Adoption project (SOPHIS).

Qualifications

SOPHIS (HISTORICAL STUDIES)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2011

MUSICOLOGY

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1972

Publications

Books

Dreyfus, F.K., 1999, Sweethearts of Rhythm, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills Syndey NSW.

Book Chapters

Dreyfus, F.K., Murphy, K.F., 2012, A passionate paradox: Public reception in 1920s Australia of visiting Italian opera companies and musicians, in Italy in Australia's Musical Landscape, eds Linda Barwick and Marcello Sorce Keller, Lyrebird Press, Parkville Victoria, Australia, pp. 13-39.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2008, Musicians in Trouble: The sad case of the Weintraub Syncopators, in Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in 1920s-1940s, eds Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen, Melbourne University Publishing, Australia, pp. 190-211.

Dreyfus, F.K., Kornhauser, B., 2007, A case of discontiguity: Musical and Cultural irony in the Situation of the Lubavitch Community of Shepparton, Victoria, in The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality, eds Fiona Richards, Ashgate, London, pp. 117-146.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2000, Alma Moodie (1898-1943), in Die Geige War ihr Leben: Drei Frauen im Portrait, Vier Viertel Verlag, Vienna Austria, pp. 233-315.

Journal Articles

Dreyfus, F.K., 2012, Breaching the profession: The musicians' union of Australia, immigrant musicians and the post-World War II Australian music industry, Musicology Australia [P], vol 34, issue 1, Routledge, Australia, pp. 33-52.

Dreyfus, F., 2011, The patron, the master and the acolyte: creative collaborations around the Pfitzner violin concerto op.34 (1923), Musicology Australia [P], vol 33, issue 2, Routledge, Australia, pp. 185-200.

Dreyfus, F., 2010, The Weintraub Syncopators: The Jewish question and the musician' union of Australia, 1937-53, Australian Jewish Historical Society. Journal [P], vol 20, issue 1, Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 81-109.

Dreyfus, F., 2010, 'Truth' and the telling of the past in the bio documentary film Weintraubs Syncopators: Bis ans andere Ende der Welt, GASt newsletter, vol 24, issue 4, Association for Australian Studies, Klagenfurt, Austria, pp. 7-22.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2009, The foreigner, the Musician's Union and the state in 1920's Australia: A nexus of conflict, Music and Politics [P], vol 3, issue 1, University of Southern California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara USA, pp. 1-17.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2007, "I cannot find a corner in the world where I am welcome" : The Australian wartime experience of the Weintraub Syncopators, Journal of Musicological Research, vol 26, issue 2-3, Routledge, USA, pp. 281-314.

Hancock, K.H.R., Dreyfus, F.K., 2007, Jewish Liturgical music of South Africa, Victorian Historical Journal, vol 78, issue 2, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 272-285.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2007, The pursuit of excellence and social equity in AYO's Young Australian Concert Artists Program 1999-2007, Australasian Music Research, vol 9, issue 2007, Lyrebird Press Australia, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 55-78.

Kartomi, M.J., Whiteoak, J.A., Dreyfus, F.K., 2004, Berlin to Bondi: the flight of the Weintraub Syncopators, Heat, vol 8, Giramondo Publishing Company, Artamon NSW Australia, pp. 14-33.

Dreyfus, F.K., 2003, Alma Moodie and the landscape of giftedness, Australasian Music Research, vol 7, University of Melbourne, Centre for Studies in Australian Music, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-14.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Choral Competition in the 'City of Song', Sing Out, vol 14, Australian National Choral Association, Holmesglen Vic Australia, pp. 9-11.

Other

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Ballarat" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Bless this House" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Brahe May" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Campbell, Bessie" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Country Gardens" in Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Crossley, Ada" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Essie Ackland" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Funslon, Grace" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Harrhy, Edith" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "I passed by your window" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Kennedy Family" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Moodie, Alma" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Ready Thelma" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Scotney, Evelyn" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Theme from Rush" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "West, Hayden Scott" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, "Wright, Frank" in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, Encyclopedia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Certificates, Soundscapes, Gore & Osment Publications, Sydney NSW Australia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Composer Profiles - Intrada Dictionary, Soundscapes, Gore & Osment Publications, Sydney NSW Australia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Composer Profiles - Intrada Dictionary, Soundscapes, Gore & Osment Publications, Sydney NSW Australia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Composer Profiles - Intrada Dictionary, Soundscapes, Gore & Osment Publications, Sydney NSW Australia.

Dreyfus, F.K., 1997, Obituary: Rosemary Florrimell 1937-1997, Musicology Australia, The Musicological Society of Australia, Australia.