AUT - Alison Booth

Alison Booth

Lecturer

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 extension 6550

Email: alison.booth@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
WH507
School of Hospitality and Tourism
Wellesley and Mayoral Drive
AUT City Campus

Postal Address:
School of Hospitality and Tourism
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142

Qualifications:

• Masters of Creative and Performing Arts (Hons)
• Certificate of Tertiary Teaching.

Memberships and Affiliations:

• Society of Ethnomusicology
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• New Zealand Association of Event Professionals
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Teaching Areas:

• BA and Diploma students
• Event Planning
• Event Production.

Research Summary:

Alison Booth is a PhD  candidate in the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute. Her PhD, New Zealand Cultural Performance Networks: Event Production and the Indian Diaspora, explores the processes and relationships that support the production of cultural events, with specific reference to events that are of interest to and/or produced by New Zealand’s Indian communities.
   

Alison holds a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts with honours from the University of Auckland speciaising in Arts Management with a primary world music production focus.

Alison is a performer as well as an event producer. She has been involved in numerous event collaborations across the event industry including conferences, concerts, and national tours.

She worked as a promotion coordinator for several years at the University of Auckland holding a variety of roles including producing small performance events. This includes within the Indian community as well as large public events for the Knowledge Wave Conference, concert collaboration with The Edge, community workshops with WOMAD, international events for the New Zealand Asia Institute and exhibitions and performances with the Auckland Museum.

Previous conference presentations include:

1. "Advocacy in Music Performance Production." Refereed conference paper presented to the Annual Meeting of The Society of Ethnomusicology, 22-24 October 2008, Wesleyan University, CT, USA (100%).
2. "Multiple Voices: music production from home to stage." Refereed conference paper presented at "Many Voices" Symposium, 16-18 April 2009, University of University of Otago, Dunedin.(100%).
3. "Producing Musical Events: Golden Memories" Refereed conference paper presented to the Annual  Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of San Diego (USA), San Diego CA 28-30 May 2009  (100%).
4. "What's in it for me? Creating value through fusion" Refereed conference paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (ANZ) 27-28 November 2009 (100%)

Current Research Projects:

• Eco-broadsides and social action: a research project with focussing on musical performances and climate change campaigns across the Pacific for a presentation at the Annual meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology in Los Angeles.
• The role of the Indian community in the Diwali Festival during the 2011 World Cup in Auckland.
• PhD,research: New Zealand Cultural Performance Networks: Event Production and the Indian Diaspora in the New Zealand.

Publications:

• Alison Booth. Multiple Voices: music production from home to stage. Chapter 6 in edited book. Many Voices. Henry Johnson, ed. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Publications 2010.
• Alison Booth. Concept to Context. Chapter 2 in edited volume Event Management. Robinson, Dickson and Wale eds, Wallingford UK: CABI, August 2010.