Richard Moyle field research papers

Richard Moyle was born in Paeroa in 1944 and educated at Auckland Grammar and Avondale College. He gained an Performance Diploma (LTCL) in piano in 1965 from Trinity College London before studying music at the University of Auckland, where he completed the University’s first PhD in ethnomusicology in 1971. He then held teaching positions at Indiana University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and for eight years was a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aborigional Studies in Canberra, publishing a trilogy of books on the music of Central Australia. He took up an appointment in anthropology at Auckland University in 1985 and was Director of Pacific Studies from 2007 untill his retirement in 2010. From 1993 to 2010 he directed Auckland University’s Archive of Maori and Pacific Music. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Research Centre, Griffith University. He is currently (2021) an Honary Professor of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.