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

Zack is the Chair of the International Society 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 MMus Popular Music Performance, Academy of Music and Sound
  • External Examiner for the INTO Graduate Diploma in Music, Newcastle University
  • 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)
  • Stillie, B & Moir, Z. (2019) The development of new Scottish music qualifications. Presented to City of Edinburgh Council Instrumental Music Service. 8th January 2019.
  • 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

 

Media Activity

  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The National
  • Radio Interview for 'IDDM' (Composition) - BBC Radio Scotland
  • 'Featured Thinker' - LILA Interactions (Indian Magazine Site)
  • Newspaper Report Publicity for 'IDDM' (Composition) in The Scotsman
  • 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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How Does This Work Then?

Other
Moir, Z. (2018)
How Does This Work Then?. [https://open.spotify.com/album/0M4UTFhAxmRmE278KWHrHP?si=8dQsAfVLRwWynNGvp5BvNw]. Online Publication
Composition for solo cello.

Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018, February)
Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Teaching Fellows Conference
No abstract available.

Can You Hear What I Feel?

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, December)
Can You Hear What I Feel?. Paper presented at Art of Record Production
No abstract available.

IDDM

Exhibition / Performance
Moir, Z. IDDM. Performed at Royal College of Music, Stockholm. 1 December 2017. (Unpublished)

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Moir, Z. IDDM. Performed at Royal College of Music, Stockholm. 1 December 2017. (Unpublished
No abstract available.

Jamming in the 3rd Room.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, September)
Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK
No abstract available.

Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene

Journal Article
Medbøe, H., & Moir, Z. (2017)
Promotion anxieties: Jazz promoters within the UK scene. Jazz Research Journal, 11(1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.32504
Definitions and roles of the promoter within the ecology of the music industries have over recent years become the subject of attention by academics working within the eld of...

Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, June)
Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado
This session will focus on Popular Music Composition (PMC) in undergraduate popular music degrees. The presenter will outline several important issues raised by students of PM...

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

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, June)
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Educators Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado
This presentation explores concepts of 'leisure' and 'musical activity' by way of contextualizing the ways in which young people engage with music making as leisure. As such ...

Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe

Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017)
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi
Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug...

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

Book
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
No abstract available.

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

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

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