Linda Barwick

Linda Mary Barwick (born 1954) is an Australian musicologist and professor emeritus at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Barwick has focused on researching Australian Indigenous music and the music of immigrant communities. She also works in the field of digital humanities, archiving recordings.

Early life and education Barwick was born Linda Mary Barwick in 1954. Early publications appeared under her married surname Linda Mary Bone She graduated with a BA (hons, 1980) and was supervised by Antonio Comin and Catherine Ellis.

Based at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Barwick was co-founder and served as the first director of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) in 2003. As of June 2022 she is chair of the steering committee of PARADISEC.

In 1995 she co-edited a collection of essays titled The essence of singing and the substance of song recent responses to the Aboriginal performing arts and other essays in honour of Catherine Ellis.

Barwick was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2014. In 2024 she was presented with the Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award.

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