The Author: Elizabeth Mackinlay (BMus Hons, PhD Adelaide, PhD Qld) is a Senior Lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland where she teaches Indigenous Studies, Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. She completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1998 and a PhD in Education in 2003. She is undertaking research on Indigenous Australian women's performance, performance pedagogy and embodied learning, race and music, and motherhood and music.