Rate My Professor Andrew Robson

Andrew Robson is the Discipline Chair of Creative Arts in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2016 with a thesis titled "Austral Jazz: A Practitioner's Perspective on the Local Remaking of a Global Music Form." Additional qualifications include a Master of Music from the Australian National University in 1997, a Graduate Diploma in Music (Jazz Performance) with Distinction from the same institution in 1992, and a Diploma of Music in Jazz Studies from the Canberra School of Music in 1991. At Macquarie, he teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate units, including The Creative Musician, Musical Authorship and Songwriting, Music Projects and Audience Engagement, Arts Management Internship, Production Foundation, and the Creative Industries. His research centers on the development of creative communities and local jazz historiography as part of New Jazz Studies, alongside creative practice through composition, recording, and performance. He has presented papers at international conferences, such as the University of Cambridge in 2014 and the Jazz Utopia conference at Birmingham City University in 2016. In 2020, Routledge published his book Austral Jazz, chronicling Sydney's jazz scene from the early 1970s.