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Dr Catherine Hoad PhD; MMCCS

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
School of Music and Creative Media Production

Professional

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Macquarie University (2016)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Co-Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

  • College Early Career Research Award - Massey University (2020)
  • Macquarie University Vice Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Research - Macquarie University (2016)
  • Abstract selection for Royal Society of New South Wales 2016 Yearbook. This selection recognises the leading PhD theses submitted in 2016. - Royal Society of New South Wales (2016)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 3 2

Research Outputs

Journal

Banchs, E., & Hoad, C. (2023). Scream for me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa. IASPM Journal. 13(3), 125-127
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2023). Significantly Othered: Limp Bizkit and the Politics of Nu Metal “Otherness”. Rock Music Studies. 10(2), 119-139
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Hoad, C. (2022). Editorial introduction. Perfect Beat. 22(1), 1-4
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Hoad, C., & Moore, I. (2022). Making metal work: Working lives of metal musicians in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Perfect Beat. 22(1), 22-42
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Hoad, C., & Wilson, O. (2020). More than ‘clips of dead fish’: gender, technologisation, and localisation in the amateur music videos of Wellington spearfishers. Green Letters. 24(3), 252-268
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Hoad, C., Wilson, O., Brunt, S., Shill, G., & Howe, B. (2020). Work-integrated learning in university popular music programmes: Localised approaches to vocational curricula in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. British Journal of Music Education. 37(2), 181-192
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C., Howe, B., Wilson, O.
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Hoad, C., & Gunn, R. (2020). Queer Contexts in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 4(1), 3-12 Retrieved from https://www.intellectbooks.com/queer-studies-in-media-popular-culture
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2019). Pauwke Berkers and Julian Schaap. 2018. ’Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production’. Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture. 19(2), 172-174Retreived from https://journal.equinoxpub.com/PB/article/view/16173
[Book Review]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2019). ‘One of the boys’: Countdown’s nationalizing project and the performative queering of Antipodean masculinity. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. 4(1), 27-41 Retrieved from https://www.intellectbooks.com/queer-studies-in-media-popular-culture
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Tulloch, R., Hoad, C., & Young, H. (2019). Riot grrrl gaming: gender, sexuality, race, and the politics of choice in Gone Home. Continuum. 33(3), 337-350
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Hoad, C. (2018). 'He can be whatever you want him to be': Identity and intimacy in the masked performance of Ghost. Popular Music. 37(2), 175-192
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Hoad, CS., & Whiting, SC. (2017). True Kvlt? The Cultural Capital of “Nordicness” in Extreme Metal. M/C Journal. 20(6)
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C. (2017). Review of Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent, Amber Clifford-Napoleone. Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture. 18(1), 77-78
[Book Review]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2017). Slashing through the boundaries: Heavy metal fandom, fan fiction and girl cultures. Metal Music Studies. 3(1), 5-22
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Hoad, C. (2016). We are the sons of the southern cross: Gendered nationalisms and imagined community in Australian extreme metal. Journal of World Popular Music. 3(1), 90-107
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Hoad, C. (2015). Whiteness with(out) borders: Translocal narratives of whiteness in heavy metal scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia.. MediaNZ. 15(1), 17-34
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2014). ‘Ons is saam’ <sup>1</sup> Afrikaans metal and rebuilding whiteness in the Rainbow Nation. International Journal of Community Music. 7(2), 189-205
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Hoad, C. (2013). Split wide open: Cannibal corpse and carnographic pleasure. United Academics Journal of Social Sciences. 3(2), 16-31
[Journal article]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C. (2012). Scream bloody gore - The abject body and posthuman possibilities in death metal. NEO journal for higher degree research in the social sciences and humanities. 5, 1-14
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Book

Hoad, C. (2023). Refuse/Resist: What Does It Mean for Metal to Be Transgressive in the Twenty-First Century?. In J. Herbst (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music.
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2022). ‘Images and words’: Textual analysis and its uses for metal music studies. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture. (pp. 151 - 169).
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C., Stahl, G., & Wilson, O. (2022). Introduction: Mixing pop and pandemics. In Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century. (pp. 1 - 12).
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.Edited by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
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Hoad, C., & Wilson, O. (2022). Looping alone, together: Music, community, and environmental self-sustainability in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century. (pp. 84 - 95).
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.Edited by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
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(2022). Mixing pop and politics: Political dimensions of popular music in the 21st century.
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Hoad, C.(2021). Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood: (Re)sounding Whiteness. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
[Authored Book]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2021). Heavy Metal in 'Global' Perspectives. In S. Krüger Bridge (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
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Hoad, C. (2021). Polar Fate: Mapping Metal at the Southern Edge of the World. In B. Bardine, & J. Stueart (Eds.) Living Metal: Metal Scenes Around the World. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C., & Wilson, O.(2021). NZ music’s #MeToo moment is a wake-up call for educators: prepare graduates to challenge and change the industry. The Conversation
[Discussion Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
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Hoad, C. (2020). Striborg, Spiritual Catharsis (2004). In J. Stratton, J. Dale, & T. Mitchell (Eds.) An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements. (pp. 97 - 110). New York, United States of America: Bloomsbury Academic
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C.(2019). Critical Introduction: What Is ‘Australian’ About Australian Heavy Metal?.
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Hoad, C.(2019). AUSTRALIAN METAL MUSIC: IDENTITIES, SCENES, AND CULTURES.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (2019). Critical Introduction: What is 'Australian' about Australian Heavy Metal?. In C. Hoad (Ed.) Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures. (pp. 1 - 18). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited
[Chapter]Authored by: Hoad, C.Edited by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C. (Ed.) (2019). Australian Metal Music: Scenes, Practices, Identities. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited
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Hoad, C. (2019). From Parking Lot to Baghdad: documentary film and global metal discourse.. In G. Bayer (Ed.) Heavy Metal at the Movies. (pp. 131 - 147). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Hoad, C.H. Feldman, D. Horn, J. Shepherd, & G. Kielich (Eds.)January(pp. 194 - 197). JanuaryFebruary
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Thesis

Hoad, C. (2016). Pale Communion: Whiteness, Masculinity and Nationhood in Heavy Metal Scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia. (Doctoral Thesis) Hoad, C. (2016). Pale Communion: Whiteness, masculinity and nationhood in heavy metal scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Hoad, C.

Report

Carter, D., Hoad, C., Wilson, O., & Wilson, J. (2022). Barriers for women in creative technology tertiary training in Aotearoa.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Carter, D., Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
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Hoad, C., & Wilson, O. (2020). Gender Diversity Among Aotearoa/New Zealand's APRA AMCOS Membership. Massey University.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
Carter, D., Hoad, C., & Muller, P. (2020). The Economic and Cultural Contributions of the Small to Medium Theatre Sector in the City of Sydney, 2018-19.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Carter, D., Hoad, C.
Carter, D., & Hoad, C. (2020). Summary and Comparison: The Economic and Cultural Contributions of select creative sectors in the City of Sydney, 2016-2020.
[Commissioned Report]Authored by: Carter, D., Hoad, C.

Conference

Hoad, C.The Problematic Box: Record stores and physical media after #metoo. . Hamilton
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C., & Wilson, O.Rethinking Industry impact in creative practice contexts. . Hamilton
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
Carter, D., Hoad, C., & Wilson, J.Gendered Barriers to Creative Tech Training. . Wellington
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Carter, D., Hoad, C.
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Wilson, O., & Hoad, C.There Goes Gravity: Flat Earth Music. . Canberra
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
Hoad, C.Polar Fate: Mapping Metal Masculinities at the Southern Edge of the World. . University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Hoad, C., & Wilson, O.Spear-to-spear networks: Music and communicative phenomenology in online spearfishing videos. . Hamilton, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C., Wilson, O.
Hoad, C.Refuse/Resist: What does it mean for metal to be rebellious in 2017?. . Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Dark Corners and Forgotten Continents: Mapping the colonialist lexicon of global metal. . Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Behind the who can tell? Identity, Intimacy and Isolation in the music of Ghost. . University of Central Queensland, Mackay, QLD, Australia
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Beer, Blokes and Brutality. . Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Slashing through the Boundaries: Heavy Metal Stars, Fanfiction, and Resistant Girl Cultures. . Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.The Vikings of the East? Metal, Marginality and Masculinity. . University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C. (2015). Beer, blokes and brutality : whiteness and banal nationalism in Australian extreme metal scenes. (pp. 300 - 308). Helsinki, Finland
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Hoad, C.
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Hoad, C.Whiteness With(out) Borders: Heavy Metal and Transnational Whiteness. . Thistle Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.The Whitening Pot: Translocal white narratives in heavy metal scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia. . University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Nobody wants to be a pale male in the new South Africa: Territories of resistance in Afrikaans heavy metal. . University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C. (2014). Why not here? Pinoy metal and peripheral communities. Communities, Places, Ecologies: International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2013 Australia and New Zealand Chapter Conference Proceedings. (pp. 13 - 22).
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C.Fucking Hostile: Transforming Spaces through Music Torture. . University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hoad, C. (2013). Hold the Heathen Hammer High: Viking Metal from the Local to the Global. Flow: Selected proceedings from the 2012 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference. (pp. 62 - 70).
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Other

Hoad, C. (2017). Explainer: The politics of heavy metal. : The Conversation
[Internet publication]Authored by: Hoad, C.
Hoad, C. (2016). Thesis abstract pale communion: whiteness, masculinity and nationhood in heavy metal scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia. (pp. 94 - 94). Royal Society of New South Wales
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Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 1 0
Co-supervisor 2 1

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Alice Tappenden - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Lived Experiences of Creative Performance Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities in Aotearoa New Zealand

Co-supervisor of:

  • Tyla Stevenson - Doctor of Philosophy
    Temporal Materialities of Virtual Fashion
  • Stella Corkery - Doctor of Philosophy
    Painting Towards a New Feminine Noise

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2024 - Anna Edgington - Doctor of Philosophy
    Gender Disparity in Music Production in Aotearoa, New Zealand: Interventional Strategies for Change