Publications

The below writing outputs have occurred since January 2023. They have been directly enabled by my ARC Fellowship and are a result of the research I am currently undertaking on gender in music and contemporary opera practice. In appreciation of the research support I have received both internationally and in Australia.

Articles

Wilcox, F. 2025. Emergence: Examining Gender in Music through Contemporary Opera. Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Spring 2024), pp. 71–95: https://doi.org/10.54103/sss23971.

Wilcox, F. 2024. Rethinking Cultural “Logics” - Thoughts From an Australian Composer/Curator, TURBA, The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, Vol 3: Issue 2, pp. 33-45: https://doi.org/10.3167/turba.2024.030205

Keynotes and Public Lectures

Wilcox, F. 2024. Emergence: examining gender representation in music through contemporary opera practice. Louise Hanson Dyer Colloquium Series, University of Melbourne, 9 May 2024. https://events.unimelb.edu.au/finearts-music/event/36547-louise-hanson-dyer-dr-felicity-wilcox

Wilcox, F. 2024. Building a Female Film Musicology: Why does it matter?’. Colloque international : Féminités et musiques à l’écran. Création, représentations et identités. Université de Tours, 25 November 2024. https://simea.hypotheses.org/6243.

Conference Papers and Seminars

Wilcox, F. 2024. Identifying mid-career blocks for women and gender diverse leaders in music. Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries, Bournemouth University, 12 September 2024. https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-excellence-media-practice/women-leadership-creative-industries

Wilcox, F. 2024. Identifying mid-career blocks for women and gender diverse leaders in music. Research Seminar Series, Audencia Business School, Nantes, 26 September 2024.

Wilcox, F. 2024. Female exemplars of screen music: how women's perspectives bring originality and identity to audiovisual work. Masters Seminar. Université de Tours, 28 November 2024.

Wilcox, F. 2023. ‘Understanding low representation of women and minority genders in music through a new Australian study.’ Women’s Work in Music. 4-6 September 2023, Bangor University, Wales.

Related Research

The publications below reflect my deep engagement with issues around gender in music, music in interdisciplinary artforms and other topics. They were primarily produced and supported prior to the commencement of my DECRA research. I share them here as they hold relevance to the Emergence project in a broad context.

Reports

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Women & Minority Genders In Music

The Women and Minority Genders in Music report by Dr Felicity Wilcox and Dr Barrie Shannon presents new, primary data about the lived experience of over 200 music creators of diverse genders in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It provides a unique insight into present-day music creation from practitioners active across a wide spectrum of musical genres. A major contribution this report makes to the comparative literature on gender in music is through its consistent reporting on the professional experiences of music creators who identify as trans and/or gender diverse.

Edited Books

Women's Music For the Screen book cover

Wilcox, F. (ed.) 2022. Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound, Routledge: New York. DOI: 10.4324/9780429264924

Book Chapters

Wilcox, F. 2022. Troubleshooting gender in the Australian screen music industry - an insider perspective. In: Grenfell, M. Kouvaris, L. & Williams, N. (eds) A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wilcox, F. 2022. Introduction: ‘We Need to Hear Your Voices.’ In Wilcox, F. (ed.) Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound, Routledge: New York. DOI: 10.4324/9780429264924-1

Wilcox, F. 2022. Songs from the Heart-Lisa Gerrard’s Music for Cinema. In Wilcox, F. (ed.) Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound, Routledge: New York. DOI: 10.4324/9780429264924-11

Wilcox, F. 2022. Composing Women of Australian Television. In Wilcox, F. (ed.) Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound, Routledge: New York. DOI: 10.4324/9780429264924-16

Journal Articles

Cooke, G. & Wilcox, F. 2022. Audiovisual gesture and spectromorphology: the Invalid Data W.E.S.T. project, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2022.2101317

Wilcox, F. 2021. ‘The Passion That We Don’t Understand:’ An Interview with Lisa Gerrard. Music and the Moving Image Journal. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. DOI: 10.5406/musimoviimag.14.1.0046

Music (non-traditional research)

Albums

Wilcox, F. Threading the Light (Move 2022)

Wilcox, F. Uncovered Ground (Move 2021)

Wilcox, F. Moment (Psychopyjama 2018)

Concert Works

Wilcox, F. Sound Fields, 2022: piano, percussion, vibraphone, flute, cello

Wilcox, F. Call and (a) Response, 2022: soprano, marimba, clarinet and electronics

Wilcox, F. Tipping Point, 2021: piano, percussion, marimba, violin, double bass, clarinet, two guitars, electronics

Wilcox, F. To the Sea, 2021: solo violin

Wilcox, F. Currawong Call, 2021: solo instrument and electronics

Wilcox, F. ‘Untitled’ from Nineteen to the Dozen 2019: SATB singers

Wilcox, F. SON-ombra (String Quartet no.1), 2018

Wilcox, F. Vivre Sa Vie - Composer's Cut, 2017: percusson, piano, flute, clarinet

Wilcox, F. People of this Place, 2016: solo bass clarinet

Wilcox, F. Snow, 2016: piano, clarinet, cello

Wilcox, F. Uncovered Ground, 2015: Baroque trio (vln, vla, cello) and modern ensemble (violin, flute clarinet, percussion, piano)

Wilcox, F. Ground, 2015: violin, viola, cello

Wilcox, F. EXIT, 2015: flexible ensemble and video with electronics

Wilcox, F. Gouttes d’un Sang Etranger (Drops of Foreign Blood), 2014: cello and clarinet OR viola da gamba and (SATB) saxophones and electronics

Wilcox, F. Quotet, 2013: piano quartet

Wilcox, F. Threading the Light, 2012: for SAB voices, string octet, percussion, vibraphone and electronics

Wilcox, F. Dual, 2010: soprano, contralto, piano, percussion, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello, oboe, clarinet.

Film music

Press

Wilcox, F. 2024. ‘Shining a light on sexism, misogyny and gender inequity in the music industry,’ UTS FASS. 28 February 2024.

Briggs, M. 2023. ‘New report examines gendered experience in music in Australia and New Zealand,’ Limelight. 11 October 2023.

Wilcox, F. 2022. ‘INSIDE THE MUSICIAN. Felicity Wilcox: In Search of New Ways to Sound’, Loudmouth, The Music Trust. 2 April 2022.

Nguyen, J. ‘Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound (Felicity Wilcox): Documenting women’s musical contributions and consistent marginalisation at the movies’, Limelight, 28 Jan 2022.

Wilcox, F. 2021. ‘We Need to Hear Your Voices’: Understanding Gender Inequity in Screen Music. Resonate, 13 October 2021.

Theocharous, M. 2021. Composer says new refrain is overdue for sexist music industry. Central News. Jul 20, 2021.

Wilcox, F. 2021. Programming must get with the program. Limelight. 28 June, 2021, Issue no. 7 2021.

Podcasts

Andrew Ford & Felicity Wilcox: ‘Pioneering women screen composers and Piazzolla's accordion.’ The Music Show, ABC RN. 30 Jan 2022.

Aaron Curran & Felicity Wilcox: on her book, ‘Women’s Music for the Screen,’ Celluloid Symphonies, 5 Dec 2021.

Victoria Pham & Felicity Wilcox: Female Experiences and Narratives, De Classify Episode 1, 2020.

Andrew Ford & Felicity Wilcox: ‘Bavouzet's Debussy + the multi-faceted Felicity Wilcox’, The Music Show, ABC RN. 24 Feb 2018.

Peggy Polias & Felicity Wilcox: Making Waves Episode 23, 21 July 2017