About Associate Professor Linda Barwick
Associate Professor Linda Barwick's research interests include: ethnomusicology, indigenous music of Australia, music documentation for endangered languages, Italian traditional music, sung popular theatre, ethnographic e-research, community-based collaborative research.
Associate Professor Barwick is a music researcher and a great believer in cross-disciplinary and collaborative research. She is Director of PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Culturs, a research facility specialising in preservation and access to Australian researchers' field recordings of endangered languages and cultures of the Asia Pacific region. Since her PhD on Italian traditional song (supervised at Flinders and Adelaide Universities) she has undertaken field research in Central and Northern Australia, Italy and the Philippines. She enjoys working with communities and linguists to produce well-documented published recordings of sung traditions. On the academic side she is particularly interested in song language, musical analysis and aesthetics of non-Western song traditions, and the implications of emerging digital and networking technologies for establishing community access points to research results.
Selected publications
Books
Marett, A., & Barwick, L. (Eds.). (2007). Studies in Aboriginal song (special issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies) (Vol. 2007/2). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Barwick, L., & Thieberger, N. (Eds.). (2006). Sustainable data from digital fieldwork. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Book Chapters
Barwick, L., & Thieberger, N. (2006). Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. 133-149). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Barwick, L. (2005). Performance, aesthetics, experience: thoughts on Yawulyu mungamunga songs. In E. Mackinlay, S. Owens & D. Collins (Eds.), Aesthetics and experience in music performance (pp. 1-18). Amersham, Bucks: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Marett, A., & Barwick, L. (2003). Endangered songs and endangered languages. In J. Blythe & R. M. Brown (Eds.), Maintaining the Links: Language Identity and the Land. (pp. 144-151). Bath, UK: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Journal Articles
Barwick, L., Birch, B., & Evans, N. (2007). Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: bringing language and music together. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2007(2), 6-34.
Barwick, L. (2006). A musicologist’s wishlist: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation. Language documentation and description, 3(2005), 53-62.
Barwick, L. (2006). Marri Ngarr lirrga songs: a musicological analysis of song pairs in performance. Musicology Australia, 28 (2005-2006), 1–25.
Barwick, L., Marett, A., Walsh, M., Reid, N., & Ford, L. (2005). Communities of interest: issues in establishing a digital resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 20(4), 383-397.
Published commercial CD with substantial scholarly booklet
Barwick, L., Birch, B., & Williams, J. (2005). Jurtbirrk love songs of northwestern Arnhem Land [Audio CD]. ISBN 1 74131 050 4. Batchelor, NT: Batchelor Press.