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Linda Barwick

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Emeritus professor, University of Sydney

I am a musicologist, specialising in the study of Australian First Nations musics, immigrant musics and the digital humanities (particularly archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities). I have studied community music practices through fieldwork in Australia, Italy and the Philippines. Themes of my research include analysis of musical action in place, the language of song, and the aesthetics of cross-cultural musical practice. I also publish on theoretical issues, including analysis of non-Western music, archiving of music and dance, and research implications of digital technologies.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Emeritus Professor, The University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
  • 2013–2020
    Professor, The University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
  • 2017–2020
    Adjunct Professor, Edith Cowan University
  • 2019–2019
    Visiting Professor, The University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
  • 2003–2013
    Director, PARADISEC, The University of Sydney

Education

  • 1986 
    Flinders University of South Australia, PhD

Honours

Member of the Order of Australia (AM), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)