ACADEMIC CAREER

Educational History

1976                 PhD, University of Cambridge.

1972                 MA (Area Studies of South Asia), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

1970                 BA (Hons), Victoria University of Wellington.

Academic Honours

2018                Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities.

2006                Stanner Prize, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

1972                Frederick Richter Prize, Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon.

Academic Appointments

2007-present Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney.

2007-09    Professor of Ethnomusicology, Charles Darwin University.

2004-06     Professor of Musicology, University of Sydney.

1997-03        Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of Sydney.

1994-97          Professor of Music, Head of Department, The University of Hong Kong.

1987-94           Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Sydney.

1980-86          Lecturer in Music, University of Sydney.

1978-80           Senior Tutor in Music, University of Sydney.

1975-78           Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Key Professional Activities

2007                Guest Editor (with Linda Barwick), Australian Aboriginal Studies

2007-09          Convenor, Annual Symposium on Indigenous Performance, Charles Darwin University.

2005-08          Vice-President, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).

2002-05          Co-convenor (with Dr Mandawuy Yunapingu and Professor Marcia Langton), Annual Garma Symposium on Indigenous Performance, Gulkula, Gove Peninsula, Arnhem Land, Northern Australia.

2000                Convenor, 23rd National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia and National Conference of the New Zealand Musicological Society, University of Sydney.  

1998-08       Executive Board, International Council for Traditional Music, Chair of Australian National ICTM Committee.

1989-91         National President, Musicological Society of Australia 

1988-06      National Committee, Musicological Society of Australia 

1985-91          Editor, Musica Asiatica. 

Selected Grants

2010             Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948  Arnhem Land Expedition. Barwick L, Thomas M, Marett A. Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).

2006-09       Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in their Multilingual Context. Barwick L, Marett A, Evans N, Garde M. Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme, Major Project Grant.

2005               Planning for Sustainability of the National Indigenous Recording Project. Marett A, Barwick L, Langton M, Corn A, Yunupingu M, James A, Marika W. Australian Research Council (ARC)/LinkageProjects (LP).

2004-8            Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye, Marett A, Walsh M, Reid N, Ford L. Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).

2001-03         An ethnomusicological study of Lirrga, a genre of Australian Aboriginal song from NW Australia. Marett, A. Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Grant.

1997-99         Public Performance Genres of the northern and eastern Kimberley. A.Marett.  Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Grant. 

1995-6            An analytical study of lirrga, an orally composed genre of Aboriginal music from  North West Australia. A. Marett. Hong Kong Research Grants Council. 

1989-91         Wangga Songs of North West Australia: an Ethnomusicological Study.A.Marett.   Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Grant.

1981-83         The Tôgaku Repertory of Japanese Court Music, Australian Research Grants Council (ARGS)/Project Grant. 

Visiting Appointments

2019                Visiting Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2001                Visiting Professor, Research Centre for Traditional Japanese Music, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto..

2001-02       Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University.

1988                Visiting Research Fellow, School of Australian Linguistics, Batchelor, Northern Territory of Australia.

1983                Senior Research Fellow (Tokubetsu Kenkyû-in), Research Archives for Japanese  Music, Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo.

1976-77          Senior Research Fellow (Tokubetsu Kenkyû-in), Research Archives for Japanese  Music, Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo.