Linda Barwick

Linda Barwick
AM FAHA
Born
Linda Mary Barwick

1954
Academic background
Alma materFlinders University
ThesisCritical perspectives on oral song in performance : the case of Donna lombarda (1986)
Academic work
InstitutionsSydney Conservatorium of Music
The University of Sydney

Linda Mary Barwick AM FAHA (born 1954) is an Australian musicologist and professor emeritus at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Barwick has focused on researching Australian Indigenous music and the music of immigrant communities. She also works in the field of digital humanities, archiving recordings.[1]

Early life and education

Barwick was born Linda Mary Barwick in 1954. Early publications appeared under her married surname Linda Mary Bone[2][3] She graduated with a BA (hons, 1980)[2] and PhD (1986) from Flinders University. Her PhD thesis was titled "Critical perspectives on oral song in performance : the case of Donna lombarda".[4]

Career

Following her PhD, Barwick moved to the University of New England, where she worked with Professor Catherine Ellis and began to study Australian Indigenous music and Aboriginal women's participation in it.[5][6]

Based at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Barwick was co-founder[7] and served as the first director of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) in 2003.[8] As of June 2022 she is chair of the steering committee of PARADISEC.[9]

In 1995 she co-edited a collection of essays titled The essence of singing and the substance of song recent responses to the Aboriginal performing arts and other essays in honour of Catherine Ellis.[10]

Barwick was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2014.[8] She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.[11]

Selected publications

Books

  • Marett, Allan; Barwick, Linda; Ford, Lysbeth Julie (2012), For the sake of a song : Wangga songmen and their repertories, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-920899-75-2
  • Harris, Amanda; Thieberger, Nicholas; Barwick, Linda, eds. (2015), Research, records and responsibility : ten years of PARADISEC, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-74332-443-1
  • Barwick, Linda; Green, Jenny; Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella, eds. (2020), Archival returns : Central Australia and beyond, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-74332-672-5

References

  1. ^ Bunyan, Marcus (25 February 2021). "Associates — Research Unit for Indigenous Language". Faculty of Arts. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b Italian dialect questionnaires for Marchigiano dialects from the province of Ascoli Piceno, PARADISEC, 1980, retrieved 16 June 2022
  3. ^ "Barwick, Linda (1954–)", Trove, 2009, retrieved 16 June 2022
  4. ^ Barwick, Linda (1986), Critical perspectives on oral song in performance : the case of Donna lombarda, retrieved 16 June 2022
  5. ^ Catherine J. Ellis; Linda M. Barwick (January 1987). "Musical syntax and the problem of meaning in a central Australian songline". Musicology Australia. 10 (1): 41–57. doi:10.1080/08145857.1987.10415179. ISSN 0814-5857. Wikidata Q110628536.
  6. ^ Linda Barwick (1990). "Central Australian Women's Ritual Music: Knowing through Analysis versus Knowing through Performance". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 60. doi:10.2307/767932. ISSN 0740-1558. Wikidata Q112583114.
  7. ^ "Professor Linda Barwick". Australian National University. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Linda Barwick". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  9. ^ "PARADISEC". PARADISEC. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  10. ^ Barwick, Linda; Marett, Allan; Tunstill, Guy, eds. (1995), The essence of singing and the substance of song recent responses to the Aboriginal performing arts and other essays in honour of Catherine Ellis, University of Sydney, ISBN 978-0-86758-994-8
  11. ^ "Australia Day 2023 Honours: Full list". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.