Zack Moir
Zack Moir

Dr Zack Moir BA MMus PhD PGCAP PFHEA

Professor

 0131 455 2337

  Z.Moir@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Prof Zack Moir is Professor of Music and School Academic Lead for Curriculum Design (School of Arts and Creative Industries). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Zack鈥檚 research interests are in popular music in higher education, music education for social justice, and composition/improvisation pedagogies. Zack is the lead editor of 鈥楾he Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspective and Practices鈥 (2019), an editor of 鈥楾he Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education鈥 (2017), and an editor of 鈥楢ction Based Approaches in Popular Music Education (2021).

Zack is the Chair of the International 麻豆社区 for Music Education's Popular Music Special Interest Group and is on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education. Zack is also an active composer/musician. Recent compositions include pieces for saxophone and tape, solo cello, and a reactive generative sound art installation for the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: A century of jazz on record
  • Conference Organiser - Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices
  • Editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education
  • Journal of Popular Music Education - Editorial Board Member

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music , Royal Northern College of Music
  • External Examiner for the INTO Graduate Diploma in Music, Newcastle University
  • External examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, Academy of Music and Sound
  • External Examiner for MMus Popular Music Performance, University of West London

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

Invited Speaker

  • We Are NOT Neutral: A Freirian Critique of (Popular) Music in Higher Education (January 2020)
  • Moir, Z. & Stillie, B. (2019) Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 7th January 2014
  • Stillie, B & Moir, Z. (2019) The development of new Scottish music qualifications. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 8th January 2019.

 

Media Activity

  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The National
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The Scotsman
  • Radio Interview for 'IDDM' (Composition) - BBC Radio Scotland
  • 'Featured Thinker' - LILA Interactions (Indian Magazine Site)
  • National Newspaper Coverage for Transatlantic Interactive Music Making Project - The Hearld
  • National TV Coverage for World's First Real-Time Transatlantic Interactive Recording Session - ITV News

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Association for Popular Music Education - Elected Member of the Board of Directors
  • Association for Popular Music Education (Member)
  • Art of Record Production (Member)

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • 'Your Feedback is Important to Us' - Interactive Sound Art Installation at Edinburgh International Science Festival

 

Reviewing

  • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
  • Journal of Music, Technology & Education (Book Reviewing)
  • Journal of Popular Music Education (Reviewer and Editorial Board Member)
  • Journal of the Art of Record Production (Reviewer)

 

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Popular Music Education (R)evolution

Book
Smith, G. D., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (2017)
Popular Music Education (R)evolution. In G. Dylan Smith, Z. Moir, M. Brennan, S. Rambarran, & P. Kirkman (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music EducationOxon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge
No abstract available.

Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry

Book Chapter
Moir, Z. (2017)
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education, and Industry. In R. Mantie, & G. D. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.9
Many young people are involved in music making activities that may be considered as 鈥渓eisure,鈥 such as playing in bands, making recordings, or live performance. Music making, ...

Jamming in the 3rd Room.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2016, December)
Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Art of Record Production, Aalborg, Denmark
No abstract available.

Contemporary Music Education: The Importance of Creativity

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, November)
Contemporary Music Education: The Importance of Creativity. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
No abstract available.

Routes To Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2016, July)
Routes To Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula Design. Paper presented at International 麻豆社区 of Music Educators World Conference, Glasgow, UK
No abstract available.

Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula. Paper presented at International 麻豆社区 of Music Education World Conference
No abstract available.

Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture, Ithaca College, New York, USA
Invited guest lecture.

Futures in Jazz - Education and Industry (Panel Chair)

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Futures in Jazz - Education and Industry (Panel Chair). Presented at Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe
No abstract available.

Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, September)
Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry. Paper presented at SACI Research Conference
No abstract available.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice

Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medb酶e, H. (2015)
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1
This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related are...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Devolved Researcher Award (拢1680)
  • Principal's Teaching Award Scheme (拢8777)
  • Higher Education Academy Workshop and Seminar Grant (拢750)

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