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Associate Professor Linda Barwick

Senior Research Fellow
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney

Director, Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

PARADISEC, Transient Building F12
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006, Australia

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 Linda Barwick

I am currently Associate Professor (Research Only) in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, and Director of PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, a cross-institutional collaborative project for preservation and access to Australian researchers' field recordings of endangered languages and cultures of the Asia-Pacific region. I also continue my longstanding interest in Italian traditional music, the area of my doctoral research.

My core research interest is in singing and song. I have undertaken field research in Central and Northern Australia, Italy and the Philippines, and enjoy working with linguists to produce well-documented published recordings of song, in collaboration with indigenous communities. I have recently helped to produce Wurrurrumi Kun-borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr, with notes by Murray Garde (Sydney: Sydney University Press, in production in June 2007).

I am particularly interested in the language of song, musical analysis of non-Western song traditions, and the implications of emerging digital and networking technologies for establishing community access points to research results.

Books

Barwick, L.M., Marett, A.J. and Simpson, J. (eds.)

2003 Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings.. Refereed conference proceedings of the international workshop held at the University of Sydney, 30 September-1 October 2003. Sydney: University of Sydney. Published online via the Open Conference Management System at http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=2.

Barwick, L.M., Marett, A.J. and Tunstill, G.T. (eds.)

1995 The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song. Recent Responses to Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays for Catherine Ellis. Sydney: University of Sydney (Oceania Monograph 46).

Barwick, L.M. with Page, J.

1994 Gestualit� e musica di un Maggio garfagnino: "I Paladini di Francia" secondo l'interpretazione dei maggianti della Compagnia di Gorfigliano, 1988. [Movement and Music of a Garfagnino maggio, "I Paladini di Francia," as performed by the players of the Gorfigliano Company,1988.] Lucca: Assessorato alla Cultura della Provincia di Lucca [120pp.]

Barwick, L.M.

1991 Secondary Documentation of the Group Project on Andagarinja (Antikirinya) Women, northern South Australia, 1966-68 Expeditions. Restricted document deposited in the Archive of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies, Canberra [534pp].

Recent journal articles

Barwick, L.M.

2006 'A musicologist's wish list: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation.' In P. K. Austin (Ed.), Language documentation and description (Vol. 3). London: School of Oriental and African Studies, in press.
2005a 'Networking digital data on endangered languages of the Asia Pacific region.' International Journal of Indigenous Research 1(1), 11-16.
2005b 'Performance, aesthetics, experience: thoughts on Yawulyu Mungamunga songs.' In E. Mackinlay, S. Owens & D. Collins (Eds.), Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance. Amersham, Bucks: Cambridge Scholars Press, 1-18.
2005c 'Marri Ngarr lirrga songs: a musicological analysis of song pairs in performance.' Musicology Australia, 28 (2005), in press
2005d "An ample and very poetical narrative": the vicissitudes of "La Pia" between the literary and oral traditions.' In M. Baker, F. Coassin & D. Glenn (Eds.), Flinders Dante Conferences, 2002 & 2004 (pp. 77-101). Adelaide: Lythrum Press.
2004 'Turning it all upside down: Imagining a distributed digital audiovisual archive.' Literary and Linguistic Computing 19(3), 253-263.
2003a 'Tempo bands, metre and rhythmic mode in Marri Ngarr "Church Lirrga" songs.' Australasian Music Research 7, 67-83.
2003b

'The Endangered Cultures Research Group's Digitisation Project: Using Digital Audio for Musicological Research.' In C. Cole and H. Craig (eds), Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities. University of Sydney: Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 147-159.

Recent conference papers

Barwick, L.M.

2005a Networking digital data on endangered cultures of the Asia Pacific region: the case of PARADISEC. Paper presented at the International Indigenous Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5 July 2005
2005 Cross-institutional research output: the PARADISEC experience. Invited paper presented at the APSR Colloquium National Perspectives on Sustainability, Canberra, ANU, 10 June.
2005 Divide and concord: designing digital repositories in relation to cultural heritage communities. Invited paper presented at the Technocultures of Knowledge Series, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, 17 March.
2004 Large-scale digital archives of endangered languages in the Asia-Pacific region [invited presentation]. Paper presented at the E-Science workshop of the Asia Pacific Advanced Networks meeting, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA, 28 January.
2003 Planning for PARADISEC. Invited paper presented at the Oz-eculture Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, 31 July.

Published recordings

2005Jurtbirrk Lovesongs from Northwestern Arnhem Land. Recordings by Linda Barwick and Bruce Birch; Booklet (40pp) by Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch and Joy Williams, project management Sabine Hoeng. Batchelor, NT: Batchelor Press, ISBN 1-74131-050-4.
2004Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's songs from Arnerre, Central Australia. Papulu Apparr-kari Language and Culture Centre, Tennant Creek. Recordings by Grace, Koch, Linda Barwick and Myfany Turpin, commentary by Myfany Turpin and Alison Ross. CD and 36pp booklet. ISBN 0-947154-00-0.
2003Jadmi Junba by Nyalgodi Scotty Martin, Traditional Songman of the Dreamtime. Recordings by Linda Barwick; Booklet (40pp) compiled by Linda Barwick with the assistance of Nyalgodi Scotty Martin, Tony Redmond, Ngarinyin Aboriginal Corporation and Sally Treloyn. Sydney: Rouseabout Records, RRR135.
2001Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs by Bobby Lane. Northern Australia. Recordings by Allan Marett and Linda Barwick; Booklet (40pp) by Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 085575-364-1. AIATSIS CD 93-17006-00015C.
2000Yawulyu Mungamunga: Dreaming Songs of Warumungu Women, Tennant Creek, Central Australia.Recordings by Linda Barwick, commentary compiled by Linda Barwick with the assistance of the performers, Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Language and Culture Centre and Jane Simpson. Sydney: Festival Records D139686.
1993Bunggridj-bunngridj: Wangga Songs by Alan Maralung. Northern Australia. Recordings and Photos: Allan Marett; Commentary (44 pages): Allan Marett and Linda Barwick. Berlin and Washington: International Institute for Traditional Music, Smithsonian/Folkways CD SF 40430.