Professor EmeritusLinda Barwick
Professor Emerita
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Professor EmeritaSydney Conservatorium of Music
Research projects & supervision summary
Dingo Lingo: Australia's past through the lens of biology, language & music (2025-2029)
(ARC Discovery Project DP250104567 led by Felicity Meakins (UQ), with CIs Myfany Turpin and Linda Barwick)
Reconnecting Warlpiri communities with cultural heritage materials (2025-2028)
(ARC Linkage Project LP220200211 led by Georgia Curran, with CIs Linda Barwick, Amanda Harris, Nicolas Peterson, Clint Bracknell, Myfany Turpin, PIs Enid Gallagher and Karl Hampton)
Recent Projects
The role of song in Kaytetye and Warlpiri biocultural knowledge (2022-2025)(ARC Discovery Project DP220100241 led by Myfany Turpin, with Linda Barwick, Georgia Curran, Linda Ford, PIs Glenn Wightman, Rona Glynn-McDonald)
Restoring on-country performance: song, language and south coast landscapes (ARC Discovery Indigenous IN200100012 2020-2023, led by Clint Bracknell, Edith Cowan University, with Linda Barwick, Pierre Horwitz, and Dan McAullay; PI Aaron Allen)
The future of endangered musics (Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, 2019, with Prof Richard Widdess, SOAS, University of London)
Reclaiming performance under assimilation, southeast Australia 1935-1975 (ARC Discovery ProjectDP1801009382018-2020, with Jakelin Troy, Matt Poll, Rachel Fensham, Lyndon Ormond-Parker, Tiriki Onus; Research Associate, Amanda Harris)
Mobilising song archives to nourish an endangered Aboriginal language (ARC Discovery Indigenous IN1701000222017-2019, led by Clint Bracknell (Edith Cowan University), with Linda Barwick and Kim Scott, Curtin)
Vitality and change in Warlpiri song (ARC Linkage Project LP160100743 2016-2019, led by Barwick with Myfany Turpin and Nicolas Peterson; Research Associate Georgia Curran; partner organisations PAW Media and Kurra Aboriginal Corporation)
Central Land Council Cultural Media Project (ARC Linkage 2015-2019; led by Barwick with Myfany Turpin, Jenny Green and Rachel Nordlinger)
Western Arnhem Land Song Project http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/arnhemland-135103
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAn insight into the appropriation of European and Other musical signifiers in the music-theatre works of Lebanon’s Rahbānī Brothers
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIntercultural Musicking: A study of the dizi from a Western flute perspective
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONKekompakan [Cohesiveness]: Togetherness and Entrainment in the Sitting Dances of Aceh Indonesia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe ancient voice of the future: reawakening Wamin song and language through the didjeridu
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Ripple Effect of the First All-Women’s Band from West Arnhem Land