Linda Mary Barwick AM FAHA (born 1954) is an Australian musicologist and professor emeritus at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Early publications appeared under her married surname Linda Mary Bone[2][3] She graduated with a BA (hons, 1980)[2] and PhD (1986) from Flinders University.
Her PhD thesis was titled "Critical perspectives on oral song in performance : the case of Donna lombarda"[4] and was supervised by Antonio Comin and Catherine Ellis.
[5] Following her PhD, Barwick moved to the University of New England, where she worked with Professor Catherine Ellis and began to study Australian Indigenous music and Aboriginal women's participation in it.
[6][7] Based at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Barwick was co-founder[8] and served as the first director of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) in 2003.