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Professor EmeritusLinda Barwick

Professor Emerita

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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  • Professor Emerita
    Sydney Conservatorium of Music

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Cultural diversity
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Italian music
  • Australian First Nations music
  • Digital humanities
  • Oral traditions

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Dingo Lingo: Australia's past through the lens of biology, language & music
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Apr 2025 - 20 Feb 2029
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    Reconnecting Warlpiri communities with cultural heritage materials
    Australian Research Council (ARC)28 Jan 2025 - 27 Jan 2028
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    Modularised cultural heritage archives future-proofing PARADISEC
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2026
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  • GRANT
    The role of song in Kaytetye and Warlpiri biocultural knowledge
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jul 2022 - 30 Dec 2026
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    Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
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    Restoring on-Country performance: song, language and south coast landscapes
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Apr 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Scott K,
    • Horwitz P,
    • Allen A,
    • Bracknell C,
    • Barwick L
  • GRANT
    Endangered songs: creativity and diversity in language and music - Visiting Professorship for Professor Linda Barwick
    Leverhulme Trust1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Barwick L
  • GRANT
    True Echoes: reconnecting cultures with recordings from the beginning of sound
    Leverhulme Trust1 Jan 2019
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    Reclaiming performance under Assimilation in southeast Australia, 1935-75
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Fensham R,
    • Troy J,
    • Onus T,
    • Le Breton Poll M,
    • Murphy J
  • GRANT
    Collection of songs from Lajamau community related to the Linkage Project titled 'Vitality and change in Warlpiri Song at Yuendumu' CI Goergia Curran and Linda Barwick.
    Warlpiri Aboriginal Corporation1 Mar 2017
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  • GRANT
    Mobilising song archives to nourish an endangered Aboriginal language
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Scott K,
    • Barwick L
  • GRANT
    Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2017
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  • GRANT
    Vitality and change in Warlpiri songs at Yuendumu
    Australian Research Council (ARC)7 Nov 2016 - 30 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Fisher S,
    • Martin V,
    • Barwick L,
    • Peterson N
  • GRANT
    Empowering Indigenous youth to create a comprehensive pan-varietal, ethnobiological, anthropological record of Kun-barlang through training in low-cost language documentation technology
    Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project1 Jun 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Barwick L,
    • O'Keeffe I,
    • Singer R
  • GRANT
    Re-integrating Central Australian community cultural collections
    Australian Research Council (ARC)30 Jun 2015 - 30 Nov 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Turpin M,
    • Green J,
    • Barwick L,
    • Connelly B,
    • Nordlinger R
  • GRANT
    Video Research Data Archiving Suite
    DVC Research1 Jan 2015
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  • GRANT
    The music-making of cultural minorities in Australia and China: aesthetics, agency and social engagement
    DVC Research1 Jan 2014
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  • GRANT
    Above and Beyond Speech, Language and Music: A Virtual Lab for Human Communication Science (HCS vLAB)
    National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Arciuli J,
    • Barwick L,
    • Burnham D,
    • Cabrera D,
    • Chamorro Cabrera J
  • GRANT
    Equipment and facilities upgrade for Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Barwick L,
    • Arka IW,
    • Thieberger N,
    • Bird S,
    • Evans N
  • GRANT
    Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2010
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  • GRANT
    Sustainable Futures for Living Musical Traditions: Developing a model combining documentation, recontextualisation, and changing modes of transmission
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Schippers H,
    • Hayward P,
    • Howard K,
    • Barwick L,
    • Dunbar-Hall P
  • GRANT
    Classical song traditions of contemporary Western Arnhem Land in their multilingual context
    University of London1 Jul 2006
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  • GRANT
    Planning for Sustainability of the National Indigenous Recording Project
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marett A,
    • Yunupingu M,
    • James A,
    • Corn A,
    • Barwick L
  • GRANT
    Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Barwick L
  • GRANT
    Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Buchhorn M,
    • Schembri G,
    • Barwick L,
    • Hunter J,
    • Johnston H