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Dr Zack Moir BA MMus PhD PGCAP PFHEA

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School of Arts and Creative Industries

Z.Moir@napier.ac.uk

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Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice

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Moir, Z., & Medbøe, 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...

Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries

Moir, Z., Ferguson, P., & Smith, G. D. (2019)

Real Time, Remote, Interactive Recording Sessions: Music Production Without Boundaries. In Producing Music. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212241

Inhabitants of the 21st century live and work in a world in which many aspects of daily interactions with other humans are no longer hampered by physical distance. Indeed, sch...

The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy

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Donn, R., Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2024)

The shifting sands of UK secondary music curricula: problematising relationships between aural training and music literacy. Music Education Research, 26(1), 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2024.2309204

This article, which is intended as a contribution to wider conversations around music literacy, explores current conceptions of music literacy within the UK, using the area of...

Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom

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Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018)

Haphazard pathways: Students’ perceptions of their routes to music study in higher education in the United Kingdom. Journal of Popular Music Education, 2(3), 199-216. doi:10.1386/jpme.2.3.199_1

This article reports on a qualitative study, which explored perceptions of fourteen first-year undergraduate music students in the United Kingdom regarding their secondary sch...

Review of 'Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education'

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Moir, Z. (2018)

Review of 'Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education'. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 11(2), 213-218. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.11.2.213_5

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Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education

Moir, Z., & Hails, J. (2019)

Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and PracticesLondon and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices

Moir, Z., Powell, B., & Smith, G. D. (2019)

Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and PracticesBloomsbury Publishing

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Improving the Music Listening Experiences of Cochlear Implant Users: Practical Ideas for Children and Adults

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Moir, Z. (2009, November)

Improving the Music Listening Experiences of Cochlear Implant Users: Practical Ideas for Children and Adults. Presented at British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (Annual Conference

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'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation

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Moir, Z. (2014, April)

'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation. Paper presented at Improvisation: Educational Perspectives

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Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: Considering the Value of Popular Music Education

Moir, Z. (2017)

Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: Considering the Value of Popular Music Education. In J. Williams, & K. Williams (Eds.), The Singer Songwriter HandbookNew York: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mountain Biking Data Sonification

We are embarking on a collaborative project between Music, the Sports, Exercise, and Health Science Research Group, and the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCOS) in a project encouraging people to...

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £971

Mountain Biking and Music from Data

1. We will, by working with a range of people with varying experience, explore how an interdisciplinary approach to sports and the arts can encourage engagement in both areas. We will look at ways in ...

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,936

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A compositional exploration of auditory-visual synaesthesia

The aim of my practice-based PhD is to determine whether tapping into one’s synaesthesia can assist in the music composition/production proce...

Corin Anderson | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

Memory in the construction of identity of diasporic Chinese in Scotland

Echo Wan | Director of Studies: Dr Diane Maclean | Second Supervisor: Dr Qiao Li

Hip-hop pedagogy in Scotland as early intervention in mainstream and community education

Rebecca Wallace | Director of Studies: Dr Dave Hook | Second Supervisor: Dr Paul Harkins

An Exploration of Live Sound Engineering in Edinburgh

Jamie McLardy | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

The social construction of dance music: Meanings, uses, and cultural capital within everyday lives

Euan Pattie | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

e(co): a study of shared creative activity in environment

Harry Docherty | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

A discourse analytic study of violence on twitter (provisional)

Amy King | Director of Studies: Dr Mabel Victoria | Second Supervisor: Dr Arin Keeble

Hybridisation as an experiential phenomenon: A practice-based approach towards conceptualising musical hybridisation

James Hind | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Presenting the Animateur d'Art, in a liminoid and communal space: the first study of Jim Haynes utilising his personal archives

Martin Belk | Director of Studies: Prof Jane Ali-Knight | Second Supervisor: Dr Kirstie Jamieson

Formal Music Curricula, Identity Formation and Group Consciousness in Primary and Secondary School Students

Agnese Di Domenico | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Anne Che

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Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education

Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other mem...

University Academics and Students Engage in Live Improvisation Over Networks at Prestigious International Conference

Can a network performance be defined, planned and executed in 90 minutes? Teams of attendees and remote performers at the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop in Prague were tasked with creatin...

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey

28 January 2019

Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the...

Edinburgh Napier academic uses personal experience of living with diabetes to inspire composition

An Edinburgh Napier academic is using his personal experience of living with diabetes to fuel his passion for making music. Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in popular music at the University, was diagnosed wit...

World First for Remote Transatlantic Real-Time Album Recording

20 September 2017

The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - in real-time. In what is believed to be a world first, Dr Paul Ferg...

Lecturer in Music is Editor of Recently 'Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education'

24 January 2017

Dr Zack Moir from music is one of the editors of the recently published 'Routledge Research Handbook of Popular Music Education', which is a new edited volume containing contributions from a wide rang...

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The Edinburgh Napier Music Research Seminar Series

The Glass Room, Merchiston Campus

3 February 2017

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