Linda Barwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 93468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Barwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Barwick |
| SIGNATURE | BARWICK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4832-7147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Country, family and performance traditions: Global challenges and local responses from Kurrindju and the Garfagnana
In many places around the world, performing ancestral traditions affirms continuity of cultural identity. In that moment you synchronise with past and future generations. Performance in ancestral places embeds this sense of the deep present. Here we contribute a Country-centered perspective on intergenerational transmission of ancestral songs and ceremonies. We consider the effects that global challenges and local responses are having in two ance…
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951: From Australia's Top End to Southeast
In 1951, performers from Daly River and Tiwi Islands Aboriginal communities staged a corroboree strike. The musicians and dancers had routinely entertained visiting cruise ships in the Darwin Botanic Gardens, but now joined dockside workers to protest the jailing and exiling of two Aboriginal agitators Lawrence Wurrpen (Urban) and Fred (Nadpur) Waters. In Melbourne, the Australian Aborigines' League expressed solidarity with the Darwin strikes an…
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities
This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share an…
Claiming the ‘Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe’
This article aims to re-evaluate Johann Lhotsky's published sheet music 'A Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe near the Australian Alps' to claim it as a distinctively Ngarigu document that speaks to Ngarigu people today. Following a method suggested by Graeme Skinner, we recover additional information, strip out the 'improvements' of the arrangers and create a new Ngarigu-oriented reading with what we hope will be 'real value for song revitali…
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge: Evidence from Women's Ceremonies Relating to Edible Seeds
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
Chapter Seven. Keepsakes and Surrogates: Hijacking Music Technology at Wadeye (Northwest Australia)
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
Marri Ngarr Lirrga Songs: A Musicological Analysis of Song Pairs in Performance
This essay discusses a set of lirrga songs performed for Allan Marett in I998 at Wadeye in Australia's Northern Territory by a group of senior Marn Ngarr men comprising the singers and composers Pros Luckan and Clement Tchinburur, the ritual specialist John Nummar and the karnbi (didjeridu) player Benedict Tchinburur. The texts of these songs and information about Marri Ngarr language are presented in the companion essay by Lysbeth Ford in this v…
Communities of Interest: Issues in Establishing a Digital Resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane
The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song. Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis
Catherine Ellis 1935-1996
Selected Audiography of Traditional Music of Aboriginal Australia
Cet article presente une liste d'enregistrements selectionnes de la musique traditionnelle des Aborigenes d'Australie et des iles du Detroit de Torres, organises selon la region geographique et le style musical. 1) Australie septentrionale sous-divisee en a) Terre d'Arnhem centrale-orientale et b) Terre d'Arnhem occidentale incluant les iles Bathurst et Melville ; 2) district de Kimberley ; 3) Australie centrale ; 4) Australie sud-orientale ; 5) …
Il concetto di musica: Contributi e prospettive della ricerca etnomusicologica
Il maggio drammatico: Una Tradizione Di Teatro in Musica
Tradizione orale e canto corale: Ricerca musicologica in Trentino
Same tunes, different voices: Contemporary use of traditional models in the Italian folk ensemble's Ballata grande per Francesco fantin (Adelaide 1990)
This paper discusses the Ballata grande per Francesco Fantin, a piece of musical theatre performed by the Italian Folk Ensemble (IFE) in Adelaide in March 1990 to accompany a photographic exhibition on the life and death of the Italian anarchist, killed by Fascist countrymen in 1942 in South Australia's Loveday Internment Camp. This quintessentially Australian Italian story is recounted through a mixture of spoken word and narrative song: for the…
Central Australian Women's Ritual Music: Knowing through Analysis versus Knowing through Performance
What can one about any sort of music by means of musical analysis?' What relationship can that bear to the knowledge of performers? These questions, pertinent perhaps to all musicologists, arise particularly strongly for me because for the past three years my work on Central Australian music has involved analysing documents of fieldwork carried out by other researchers (mainly Catherine Ellis) during the 1960s and early 70s, despite the fact that…
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Fables and endless genealogies: Soap opera and women's culture
Transcription as deflowering: Collection practices in Italy, pre-1939
This paper focuses on the interaction between transcribers and performers of traditional songs before the ready availability of sound recording. What acts did the collectors perform to produce the written documents that are our only record of performance traditions of that time? How did they represent this activity to themselves and others? Although the purposes for which these documents were made may be no longer relevant, exploring how they wer…
Musical syntax and the problem of meaning in a central Australian songline
In the performance traditions of central Australia, musical knowledge is but one facet of an extremely complex ritual life. Through analysis of the musical variation observed between a number of different recordings of one composite Pitjantjatjara and Antekirinya songline, the authors attempt to clarify the structural features of the songline' musical system, which as a whole is much more stable than the associated extramusical exegesis. Although…
Central Australian Women's Ritual Music: Knowing through Analysis versus Knowing through Performance
What can one about any sort of music by means of musical analysis?' What relationship can that bear to the knowledge of performers? These questions, pertinent perhaps to all musicologists, arise particularly strongly for me because for the past three years my work on Central Australian music has involved analysing documents of fieldwork carried out by other researchers (mainly Catherine Ellis) during the 1960s and early 70s, despite the fact that…
Musical syntax and the problem of meaning in a central Australian songline
In the performance traditions of central Australia, musical knowledge is but one facet of an extremely complex ritual life. Through analysis of the musical variation observed between a number of different recordings of one composite Pitjantjatjara and Antekirinya songline, the authors attempt to clarify the structural features of the songline' musical system, which as a whole is much more stable than the associated extramusical exegesis. Although…
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
Communities of Interest: Issues in Establishing a Digital Resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
Marri Ngarr Lirrga Songs: A Musicological Analysis of Song Pairs in Performance
This essay discusses a set of lirrga songs performed for Allan Marett in I998 at Wadeye in Australia's Northern Territory by a group of senior Marn Ngarr men comprising the singers and composers Pros Luckan and Clement Tchinburur, the ritual specialist John Nummar and the karnbi (didjeridu) player Benedict Tchinburur. The texts of these songs and information about Marri Ngarr language are presented in the companion essay by Lysbeth Ford in this v…
The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song. Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities
This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share an…
Same tunes, different voices: Contemporary use of traditional models in the Italian folk ensemble's Ballata grande per Francesco fantin (Adelaide 1990)
This paper discusses the Ballata grande per Francesco Fantin, a piece of musical theatre performed by the Italian Folk Ensemble (IFE) in Adelaide in March 1990 to accompany a photographic exhibition on the life and death of the Italian anarchist, killed by Fascist countrymen in 1942 in South Australia's Loveday Internment Camp. This quintessentially Australian Italian story is recounted through a mixture of spoken word and narrative song: for the…
Fables and endless genealogies: Soap opera and women's culture
Musical syntax and the problem of meaning in a central Australian songline
In the performance traditions of central Australia, musical knowledge is but one facet of an extremely complex ritual life. Through analysis of the musical variation observed between a number of different recordings of one composite Pitjantjatjara and Antekirinya songline, the authors attempt to clarify the structural features of the songline' musical system, which as a whole is much more stable than the associated extramusical exegesis. Although…
Fables and endless genealogies: Soap opera and women's culture
Transcription as deflowering: Collection practices in Italy, pre-1939
This paper focuses on the interaction between transcribers and performers of traditional songs before the ready availability of sound recording. What acts did the collectors perform to produce the written documents that are our only record of performance traditions of that time? How did they represent this activity to themselves and others? Although the purposes for which these documents were made may be no longer relevant, exploring how they wer…
Central Australian Women's Ritual Music: Knowing through Analysis versus Knowing through Performance
What can one about any sort of music by means of musical analysis?' What relationship can that bear to the knowledge of performers? These questions, pertinent perhaps to all musicologists, arise particularly strongly for me because for the past three years my work on Central Australian music has involved analysing documents of fieldwork carried out by other researchers (mainly Catherine Ellis) during the 1960s and early 70s, despite the fact that…
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Same tunes, different voices: Contemporary use of traditional models in the Italian folk ensemble's Ballata grande per Francesco fantin (Adelaide 1990)
This paper discusses the Ballata grande per Francesco Fantin, a piece of musical theatre performed by the Italian Folk Ensemble (IFE) in Adelaide in March 1990 to accompany a photographic exhibition on the life and death of the Italian anarchist, killed by Fascist countrymen in 1942 in South Australia's Loveday Internment Camp. This quintessentially Australian Italian story is recounted through a mixture of spoken word and narrative song: for the…
Tradizione orale e canto corale: Ricerca musicologica in Trentino
Il maggio drammatico: Una Tradizione Di Teatro in Musica
Il concetto di musica: Contributi e prospettive della ricerca etnomusicologica
The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song. Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis
Catherine Ellis 1935-1996
Selected Audiography of Traditional Music of Aboriginal Australia
Cet article presente une liste d'enregistrements selectionnes de la musique traditionnelle des Aborigenes d'Australie et des iles du Detroit de Torres, organises selon la region geographique et le style musical. 1) Australie septentrionale sous-divisee en a) Terre d'Arnhem centrale-orientale et b) Terre d'Arnhem occidentale incluant les iles Bathurst et Melville ; 2) district de Kimberley ; 3) Australie centrale ; 4) Australie sud-orientale ; 5) …
Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane
Marri Ngarr Lirrga Songs: A Musicological Analysis of Song Pairs in Performance
This essay discusses a set of lirrga songs performed for Allan Marett in I998 at Wadeye in Australia's Northern Territory by a group of senior Marn Ngarr men comprising the singers and composers Pros Luckan and Clement Tchinburur, the ritual specialist John Nummar and the karnbi (didjeridu) player Benedict Tchinburur. The texts of these songs and information about Marri Ngarr language are presented in the companion essay by Lysbeth Ford in this v…
Communities of Interest: Issues in Establishing a Digital Resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT
Linguistics and musicology, along with other fieldwork-based disciplines, have obligations to facilitate access to research results by the communities whose cultural heritage is recorded and analysed, especially when the languages and musics in question are otherwise little documented, have few speakers or performers, and are threatened by the global dominance of English. This article presents the early results of our planning for establishment o…
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
Chapter Seven. Keepsakes and Surrogates: Hijacking Music Technology at Wadeye (Northwest Australia)
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge: Evidence from Women's Ceremonies Relating to Edible Seeds
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
Claiming the ‘Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe’
This article aims to re-evaluate Johann Lhotsky's published sheet music 'A Song of the Women of the Menero Tribe near the Australian Alps' to claim it as a distinctively Ngarigu document that speaks to Ngarigu people today. Following a method suggested by Graeme Skinner, we recover additional information, strip out the 'improvements' of the arrangers and create a new Ngarigu-oriented reading with what we hope will be 'real value for song revitali…
The Fringe or the Heart of Things? Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Musics in Australian Music Institutions
Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a …
Sharing and storing digital cultural records in Central Australian Indigenous communities
This article considers how Indigenous peoples in Central Australia share and keep digital records of events and cultural knowledge in a period of rapid technological change. To date, research has focused upon the development of digital archives and platforms that reflect Indigenous epistemologies and incorporation of protocols governing access to information. Yet there is scant research on how individuals with little access to such media share an…
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951: From Australia's Top End to Southeast
In 1951, performers from Daly River and Tiwi Islands Aboriginal communities staged a corroboree strike. The musicians and dancers had routinely entertained visiting cruise ships in the Darwin Botanic Gardens, but now joined dockside workers to protest the jailing and exiling of two Aboriginal agitators Lawrence Wurrpen (Urban) and Fred (Nadpur) Waters. In Melbourne, the Australian Aborigines' League expressed solidarity with the Darwin strikes an…
Country, family and performance traditions: Global challenges and local responses from Kurrindju and the Garfagnana
In many places around the world, performing ancestral traditions affirms continuity of cultural identity. In that moment you synchronise with past and future generations. Performance in ancestral places embeds this sense of the deep present. Here we contribute a Country-centered perspective on intergenerational transmission of ancestral songs and ceremonies. We consider the effects that global challenges and local responses are having in two ance…
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