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Assoc Prof Eugene I. Dairianathan
Associate Professor, National Institute of Education - Visual & Performing Arts
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Eugene’s interests are in interdisciplinary perspectives on Music and Education as well as musical practices in Singapore. He was lead author of a technical report based on a NAC Grant A Narrative History of Music in Singapore 1819 to the present (https://repository.nie.edu.sg/handle/10497/4539) (Dairianathan and Phan 2005), Principal Investigator for two Education Research projects on Creative music-making (OER 36-08 ED) and Popular Music (OER17-12ED) in schools, Co-Principal Investigator in three further Research projects. More recently he has contributed several entries for the SAGE Music in the Social and Behavioural Sciences (Thompson 2014) and Music and Culture (Sturman 2019) encyclopaedias. Eugene is co-author of "First Steps to Music" and "The Joy of Music" which are Ministry of Education approved music textbooks for Singapore primary and secondary schools. Together with Alvyn Eng, he will be co-author on the forthcoming third iteration of "First Steps to Music"
- A study of music scores from the Singapore Police Force Band collection (currently in the Private Collection of the National Archives of Singapore) as musical heritage in Singapore