SOUND FOOTINGS PROJECT

In 2005, following on from earlier successes with the Preserving Australia's Sound Heritage Project, Emeritus Professor David Tunley, Dr Victoria Rogers (the then Director of the Callaway Centre) and Dr Toby Burrows were successful in attracting funding through the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure Projects to undertake work in collating, cataloguing and digitising the archive’s Eileen Joyce Collection. The Sound Footings project aims to foster Australian music research through the development of this significant collection, and to make the collection accessible through the Callaway Centre Archive's online catalogue and the National Library of Australia's MusicAustralia service.

Eileen Joyce was an internationally acclaimed concert pianist from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Before her death in 1991 she transferred her personal papers and music to the Callaway Centre Archive at The University of Western Australia. This collection offers researchers a rare glimpse into the day to day life of a publicly-adored concert pianist: the gruelling schedules, as evidenced through her engagement diaries; the minutiae of detail necessary in arranging tours, as shown in her correspondence files; and her choice of performance editions. The Eileen Joyce Collection contains over 3,000 items across varying formats, including scrapbooks, sound discs, photographs and letters.

Acknowledgements

This infrastructure was established through funding provided by the Australian Research Council's Linkage Infrastructure Projects (project number LEO 668458 - Sound Footings: creating a web-based research infrastructure of major music archives) and The University of Western Australia's Research Matching Fund. Further support and expertise were provided by the National Library of Australia and the library at The University of Western Australia. The Chief Investigators acknowledge and thank the ARC, The University of Western Australia and the National Library of Australia for their support.

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