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Catherine Ellis (ethnomusicologist)

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from 1957 to 1958. She based her PhD on her analysis of Strehlow's collected material. On returning to Adelaide in 1962 she resumed her research assistant position but soon won a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Australian Linguistics. Next she received an ARC Research Fellowship to the
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for "service to music education and ethnomusicology, particularly Aboriginal music". She received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New England in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the
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Ellis served on the Council of the International Society for Ethnomusicology from 1968 to 1971, the first Australian to be elected.
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At the end of her secondary schooling, Ellis won a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1953. She graduated from the
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Ellis, Catherine J (October 1969). "Aboriginal Music and the Specialist Music Teacher".
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Aboriginal Music, Education for Living: Cross-cultural experiences from South Australia
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She served as president of the Musicological Society of Australia from 1988 to 1989.
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in South Australia and along the Murray River to study and record Aboriginal music.
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This article is about the ethnomusicologist. For the historian of French music, see
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Her research papers, correspondence and unpublished manuscripts are held in the
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Ellis began her career researching Aboriginal music as assistant to Professor
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In 1985 Ellis was the first professor of music appointed by the
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Aboriginal Music Making: A study of Central Australian Music
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(June 1969). 319: 243:(1932–1993), she established the 831:"Professor Catherine Joan Ellis" 664:"Rankine, Dorothy Leila - Woman" 492:from the original on 10 May 2021 331: 305:Member of the Order of Australia 823: 800: 669:The Australian Women's Register 250:Throughout her career she made 232:Elder Conservatorium of Music. 887:University of Melbourne alumni 761: 694: 655: 611:Yearbook for Traditional Music 560: 532: 504: 268: 1: 907:Australian ethnomusicologists 733:"Catherine Ellis (1935–1996)" 464: 293:National Library of Australia 284:Ellis died on 30 May 1996 in 807:Ellis, Catherine J. (1957), 567:Ellis, Catherine J. (1961). 364:Ellis, Catherine J. (1985), 356:Ellis, Catherine J. 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Index

Katharine Ellis
AM
FAHA
Birregurra
Adelaide
University of Melbourne
Alma mater
University of Glasgow
Thesis
University of Adelaide
University of New England
AM
FAHA
ethnomusicologist
Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music
University of Adelaide
Birregurra
University of Melbourne
Ormond College
University of Glasgow
Ted Strehlow
University of Adelaide
Ngarrindjeri
Leila Rankine
Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music
field trips
University of New England
Armidale
Adelaide
National Library of Australia

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