PhD, B Arts (Honours), B Arts (Music), Cert Audio Engineering
Deputy Director (Gold Coast)
Program Convenor, Bachelor of Popular Music
Lecturer in Popular music
Contact details for Dr Donna Weston
Research expertise
- Popular music and local identity in regional France
- Pagan studies and popular music
- Philosophies of place
- Esotericism and music
Publications
Journal Articles
- Weston, D. (2011). Basque Pagan Metal: View to a Primordial Past. European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 14/1
- Weston, D. (in print). Bearn Folk Rock: Language, Place and the Soundscape of the New Europe. Journal of Intercultural Studies.
Published conference presentations
- Weston, D. (2008). Gascon Rock: Micro Identities in the European Union in C. Strong and M. Philipov (Eds.), Stuck in the Middle - The Mainstream and its Discontents. Selected proceedings of the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (ANZ). Auckland, New Zealand: IASPM-ANZ.
Conference presentations
- Weston, D. (2010). Gascon Folk Rock and the Soundscape of Bearnais Identity. Paper presented for a conference of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, in Koli, Finland.
- Weston, D. (2009). Pop Pagans: the Sacredness of Place in Popular Music. Paper presented for a conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, at the University of Liverpool.
- Weston, D. (2008). Eco-paganism and 'World Music' Festivals. Paper presented for a conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, at the University of Melbourne.
- Weston, D. (2008). Basque Rock and Regional Identity. Invited paper presented for a conference of the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative at the Island Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney.
- Weston, D. (2007). Basque Rock: Cultural Island in a Spanish Sea. Paper presented at the combined conference of the Musicological Societies of Australia and New Zealand at Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane.
- Weston, D. (2005). Basque Pagan Metal and Ethnic Identity. Paper presented at the 36th International Council for Traditional Music conference at the University of Sheffield, England.