Department of Music
Charlotte Schuitenmaker
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Arts PhD Research Student
- Department
- Department of Music
- Qualifications
- BA, MA, rMA (University of Amsterdam)
- Email address
- 687587@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Rachel Harris
Biography
Charlotte's current Ph.D. research project at SOAS is titled “Sounding First Nations Movements in Sydney, Australia”, for which she holds a Bloomsbury Colleges Ph.D. Studentship.
Key themes in this project are urban community issues, Indigenous rights, space-making, soundscape projects, and environmentalism.
As part of her research project, she set up the podcast “Movements & Sounds”, which received funding as part of the Santander Enterprise Seed Fund scheme. See more on movementsandsounds.com. Charlotte is also associate editor at SEM Student News, the postgraduate research student journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
She obtained her BA and MA in (Ethno-)Musicology and rMA in Art Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. During these studies, she went on exchanges to Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Horizon Scholarship.
Key publications
Schuitenmaker, Charlotte. 2022. “Rattling Those Cages: Reflections on Indigenous Voices in the Black Lives Matter Movement in Australia.” SEM Student News (17), 2, pp 1-5
Research interests
Charlotte’s research interests are (Ethno)musicology, Indigenous studies, and Environmentalism
Personal links
Movements & Sounds Music in the City Research Podcast
