Amanda Harris
@AmandaHarrisSyd
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Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Joined November 2019
This week I officially begin my ARC Future Fellowship exploring histories of musical encounter. Am excited about the HDR and post-doctoral scholars that will be brought into the project along the way, starting with these scholarships just advertised:
sydney.edu.au
This scholarship provides financial support to a Master of Philosophy, PhD or Doctor of Musical Arts student undertaking research as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship...
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One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course https://t.co/zjp5mE39qj
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Amanda Harris reviews ‘The Wild Australia Show: The Story of an Aboriginal Performance Troupe and Its Afterlives’ by Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles & Jonathan Richards @ANU_Press
https://t.co/48OHzDoG0b
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The AHA was delighted to see so many history Discovery Projects receive ARC funding, announced this week! Congratulations to all the successful applicants, especially the AHA members among them, and commiserations to those who weren't funded this time around.
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Julia Russoniello and I have an article in this interesting new special issue on histories of northern Australia
Publication day! New issue of the Australian Studies Journal is open access. It was a pleasure to guest edit this special issue on histories of northern Australia. The articles come from papers presented at the 2025 AHA co-hosted by CQUniversity and JCU. https://t.co/rKY1Iyfapv
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And some media stories about Deveni Temu's Peroveta Singers of Canberra and their work with PARADISEC going out today. Here's the first on Pacific Beat: PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages.
abc.net.au
For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.
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Our new Open Access article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today w/ Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau & Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' https://t.co/XXA0tFW833
@PARADISEC_Aus
tandfonline.com
For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...
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Covering off my research interests from all the angles - looking forward to diving into this stack of newly arrived books
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Rest in peace Uncle Vic ❤️ "He was a much loved personality of the South Sydney community… he was a family man, he loved entertainment, loved his people." "He was a proud Bidjigal man." Bidjigal Elder & acclaimed musician Uncle Vic Simms dies aged 78
abc.net.au
Acclaimed Aboriginal musician Victor Simms has passed away aged 79, drawing the curtains on an inspiring six-decade career.
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia edited by Amanda Harris - @AmandaHarrisSyd and Clint Bracknell - @ClintBracknell Explores the breadth of musical practice in Australia with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musics at its very heart. 📚 https://t.co/Ajx3lqjwob
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Books are in hand! Thanks to Sarah Collins and @HumanitiesAU for a lovely launch of the Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia last Friday with @ClintBracknell @CambridgeUP
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Anthony C. Woodbury from the University of Texas reviews a new essay collection in honour of Linda Barwick, renowned and respected musicologist. Get your copy now: https://t.co/zRwZYAiBPy
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Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas, Anthony C. Woodbury, reviews "Keeping Time", a fascinating new essay collection edited by Nick Thieberger, Amanda Harris, Sally Treloyn and Myfany Turpin. Get your copy now: https://t.co/zRwZYAiBPy
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Solidarity with University of Wollongong History colleagues - this is such a collegial department of innovative and insightful historians - losing them would be such a loss to the region
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The Australian Women's History Network stands in solidarity with all university academic and professional staff who are facing job cuts and redundancies. As we reshare our 2023 statement in support of ACU staff, please send us details to enable our work towards a 2024 statement.
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Publication day for our new edited book!
Happy publication day to "Keeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in honour of Linda Barwick"! Read more: https://t.co/8j7IRinXbV
#NewRelease #Publishing #IndigenousMusic
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"Music, Dance and the Archive" explores modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. Read Tiffany Shellam's review: https://t.co/PbbwjVi6c6 Get your copy now: https://t.co/ds6nkp4Y2N
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"Music, Dance and the Archive" is an edited volume that explores efforts to redefine the role of archives and bring them into dialogue with contemporary creative work. Read Tiffany Shellam's full review here: https://t.co/PbbwjVi6c6 Get your copy now: https://t.co/ds6nkp4Y2N
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Friday essay: ‘I claimed our data’ – confronting the colonial archive is ‘intense Aboriginal love’ in action https://t.co/HO8ySkG5v3 via @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com
Charmaine Papertalk Green sifts through the violent, traumatic colonial archive, to know more about her Old People. It’s heartbreaking work, but a sliver of information can make a world of difference.
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