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AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE UNIT
About the Australian Folklore Unit
Index to the Warren Fahey Oral History & Folklore Collection at the National Library of Australia.
about the collection
biographical note
Series 1: boxes 1-6
Collecting Folklore and music
The Folklore of Sydney Project 2004 – 2006 (overview) and link to new Sydney section
AUSTRALIAN FOLK MUSIC A NEW SECTION (is this part of collection??)
Australia and its traditional music – an overview (article) moved to new section Australian Folk Music
WHAT IS AUSTRALIAN FOLK MUSIC?
ORIGINS.
HOW DOES IT CHANGE?
RELEVANCE TO THE 21ST CENTURY
FOLKLORE/HISTORY/MUSIC COLLECTION
An Introduction to the Collection Material REWRITE
THE COLLECTION A-Z
Australian Aboriginal and Islander Perspectives
Overview
Songs About Aboriginality
Early Impressions
Aboriginal Based Sydney References
Natives of Australia
Death of King Boongarie
Australian Folk Music
Australia and its traditional music – an overview
What is Australian Folk Music?
Origins.
How Does Folk Music Change?
Folk music in a changing world
Relevance to the 21st Century
Characteristics
Hunting Down the Old Bush Songs: D.S. Mitchell
Australian States & Territories – folklore & curious history
Australian Locality Songs 1900-1963
New South Wales (NSW) - Sydney and Cornstalks
Sydney: Bold Brash and Beautiful
- Introduction
- The Project
- The Survey Fields
- Collecting & Researching Folklore
A Commentary on Sydney
Social Manners
Entertainment
The Garden Palace
The Sydney Poor
Locality Song List 1900-1963
Songs About Sydney
Sydney Harbour Bridge Songs
Contemporary songs about Sydney
Popular songs about Sydney
Sayings of old Sydney
Sydney Suburbs
Sydney place names and their history
Observations on Sydney
Smelly Old Sydney “On The Nose
Woolloomooloo’s History
A Snapshot of 'Manar'
Paddington Born-Paddington Bred
Victoria (VIC) - Melbourne and Yarra Drinkers
Observations of Melbourne
Melbourne, City of Palaces
Middle Class Melbourne
The Model Lodging House
Fashion on the Field
Songs about city life in Sydney or Melb according to songs
Adelaide and Croweaters – following – all to come
Perth and Sandgropers
Brisbane and Bananabenders
Darwin and Territorians
Canberra and who cares?
Billy Barlow – an Australian Theatrical Phenomenon
The Many Songs of Billy Barlow move to new Billy Barlow section
Hey Ho Raggedy-O: A Study of the Billy Barlow Phenomenon (written by Joy Hildebrand)
Bush Life
WHAT IS ‘THE BUSH’? new sub section to come
Life in the Bush the following will go under their appropriate section eg shearing iunder shearing
Bush Life – I will need to allocate
Droving
Boots & all: history of the boot in Australia moved here to CATTLE DROVING
Ron Kerr - Reminiscences of a Working Drover Ditto
Bullock Driving
Shearing
Station life
Timber
Bushrangers
Bushrangers
Bushranger Exploits in NSW
Bushranging in Van Dieman's Land
Medals for Bravery
Rewards Offered
Victims Murdered
Bushrangers Shot or Hanged
An analysis of Australian Highwayman Ballads
Carcoar - a portrait of a Country Town
links for example ‘Bail Up!” bushranging poetry
Calendar & Weather Lore
Lore
Sydney Weather Lore
Special Days and Holidays
The Merry Month of May
Thirty Days Hath September
Children’s Lore
Kids Lore
Collecting Children's lore
Methodology of Collection
School War Cries
School Songs
Bawdy kids' rhymes
Games
Traditional games
Clapping games (includes 23 videos)
Kookaburra Sits on an Old Gum Tree
The Marion Sinclair story
Parodies
Correspondence Files
Songs From An Old Gum Tree
Classic Bush Poetry
Introduction
Index
Bail Up verse collection
Hard Yakka verse collection
The Demon Drink verse collection
Bush Life Bush Strife verse collection
Freedom on the Wallaby verse collection
Horses, Dogs and Dags verse collection
Australian Dreaming verse collection
Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies
The Language of the Bush
Jack Moses
Wilf Carter
The Life and Writings of Will Carter
Tumba-Bloody-Rumba Shootin’ Kanga-Bloody-Roos
Colloquial Sayings & Slanguage
Sayings from Contributors
The History of an Autograph Book
The History of The Bulletin
Antipodean Lexicon
Concerts & Radio Specials
Radio Programs
Introduction
While the Billy Boils
The Australian Legend
Songs That Made Australia
Concerts
Songs of Struggle :
(Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)
Joe Heaney
Don Banks Music Award
Convicts & Transportation
Australia - Its Discovery (an overview)
The Convict's Tour of Hell
about the work
Convict Broadsides
Convict Life
An overview
Stats
Letters
Convict embarkation
Sufferings of the convicts
Charles White: Convict Life extract
The Voyage
Convict Work
Convict New Chums
Separating Convicts
Female Convicts
punishment
Ticket of Leave
The Last Convict Ships
Curiosities
Convict Insurrection (Castle Hill)
Crime material in this needs to be allocated to convict and bushranging sections and Crime deleted.
Dance in Australia
History of Dance in Australia
Social Dance
History and overview of Morris Dance
Morris, Sword and Mummers Plays in Australia
Mel Ward’s Mummers Play script
Memories of a Woolshed Concert
Sydney Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball 1844
About the Fancy Ball - SMH 1844
List of Names and Characters
Fancy Dress Ball song
Demon Drink & Evil Weed
A Good Supply of Weed
Miscellaneous Lore
Demon Drink and Teetotalism
Lambing Down
Dogs - Folklore and History in Australia
Introduction
Dogs in Colonial Cities
Dogs on the Goldfields
Dogs and Bushrangers
The First Dog Show
Working Dogs
The Sheep Dog
The Scotch Sheep Dog
The Droverís Dog
Cur Dogs
Lurchers
Dogs in the Cattle Industry
Dogs as Mates
Dog Shoes
Dog Names
Talking Dogs
Dogs and Language
Dogs in Song and Verse
Eccentrics
Introduction
Eccentrics
Swag Carriers
Street sellers and their chants
Oddities of suburban and rural life
‘Hungry’ Tyson yarns
Flying Pieman
Up on Your Soapbox, Johnny
Gaylore
Gaylore – folklore of the gay and lesbian sub-culture
Drag Names
Emigration and Free Settlers
Emigration and Free selection
Female Emigrants
Moley Hoses - Will H. Lister
Chinese
Others
Hall of Fame - Legendary Australian Performers
Music Hall
Vaudeville
Early Radio
Country & Western
Jazz & Swing
Folk music
Humour
Bawdry
Bill Harney Songs
Aussie Humour (Ian M. Johnstone)
- Introduction
- Humour Helps Us Through
- Slide from Innocent Indirectness
- Humour's Techniques and Forms
- Playfulness and Possibilities
- More Teqhniques and Forms
- Conclusion
The Dunny: a History
Shock Horror: Folklore of Disaster
Labour History & Unionism
Songs and selections from ‘labour; and ‘socialist’ newspapers (Collected material1)
Collected material 2 (as above)
Miscellaneous material
Don't Go Down the Mine, Daddy
The New Unionism
Lean and Mean Times – Depressions and Booms
Boom & bust on the money-go-round
Maritime
Where are the Maritime Songs
The story of the Nancy Lee
Superstitions and History
Sea Shanties
Manavilins
Songs & ditties
Ships
All at Sea - Maritime Folklore
Damned Souls & Turning Wheels
Songs from the Shackleton Expedition to Antartica
The Clive Carey Collection
An Introduction to the collection
About Clive Carey
Notes on Provenance
From George Pattison
From Malcolm Forbes
Military – Army, Navy & Air Force
Army Songs are part of the "Digger" Tradition
Digger's Songs
Gunner Peck
How Would You Be? (traditional monologue)
Military Songs Additions
Mining – Gold, Coal, Copper and Tin.
Gold - moved here
Gold history
Licence-Hunting
A Draper in Australia
A Digger Hunt
Don't Go Down the Mine, Daddy : Beaconsfield Folklore (article)
Add coal etc which currently overloads the Labour History section
Minstrelsy
Minstrelsy Tradition in Australia (article)
Minstrelsy and the banjo in Australia (article)
American influences on Australian traditional music (article) moved here
Musical Instruments In The Australian Tradition
How to build bush band instruments. (guide)
The Big Squeeze: history of concertina and accordions
Concertina and Melodeon History
Concertina Doctor of Bathurst
Salvation Army Concertina Bands
Popular Entertainment all relocated
Reminiscences and diaries
diary snippets and notes allocate to appropriate sections
Songsters & Songbooks
I’ve Got The Music Right Here In My Pocket: History of songsters in Australia
Index to Australian songs in Imperial songsters
Index to Australian songs in Boomerang songsters
Index to Australian songs in Australian Melodists songsters
Index to Australian songs in the Queenslanders New Colonial Campfire Songbook
Index to Australian songs in Tibb's Songbooks
Index to Australian songs in the Victorian songster
Index to Australian songs in other songsters
M J Conlon (article - coming)
Sport
Sports Crazy & Gambling Mad (article)
Football
Boxing, Wrestling & Strongmen
Cricket
Horseracing
Miscellaneous sport
The History of the Melbourne & Caulfield Cup (article)
Superstitions in Australia
Introduction
Australian ghosts
Spooky New South Wales
Spooky tales
Supernatural case studies
Urban myths
Mel Ward
Transport
The Iron Road – history of rail in Australia (article - opens in new window)
Railway folklore
Tram folklore
Ferries
Drays and Carts and Horses and Bullocks
Miscellaneous transport
Tucker
You Are What You Eat: Restaurants
Tea and Coffee
History of the Biscuit in Australia
Polly Wolly Polly Waffle - "mmm, crunch, aah!"
A Chip off the Old Block: Potato Lore
Wedding & other celebratory lore
the wedding e-book has disappeared again and obviously needs to be here.
When those wedding bells toll: wedding superstitions/customs (article)
ORAL HISTORY AND FOLKLORE RECORDINGS Moved to end of collected material
Recordings 1971 – 2003 I would like to highlight these and present differently
Recordings 2004 onwards. Ditto – I think this can be done by having a ‘box’ alongside with an image and message – will discuss
THE AUSTRALIAN FOLK REVIVAL
The role of folk clubs
Some observations on Australian folk song & music: some necessary labels
History of Australian folk clubs and key artists: The Malcolm J Turnbull Archive
Introduction
Early Adelaide
Early Brisbane
Early Melbourne 1
Early Melbourne 2
Early Perth
Early Sydney
Early Tasmania
Some Fondly Remembered 'Boy Bands' of the Folk Years ‘: Ivy League Trios
Not Just another Folk Concert: Recalling the Four Capitals Tour
The Great Folk Revival – Some Issues, Debates and Controversies
Memories
Focus on Folk: Images of the Australian Folk Revival
As a Matter of Public Record - CD, Book and Concert Reviews
WARREN FAHEY
About Warren Fahey - Family History
There are lots of stories from my youth but suffice to say my family background was a healthy and happy one....read about the early days
Performer of Bush traditions
Songs From My Swag
Warren Fahey & the concertina
a potted history of The Folk Revival
a discography of recordings
The Larrikins– pioneer bush band
How to Book a Performance or Talk
Concert and event producer
Lorient Festival InterCeltique (podcast)
2007 Old Sydney Festival
The writer
list of published books and contributions to anthologies
magazine and newspaper articles
The record producer and the Larrikin Recording Label
about the larrikin label
larrikin label lps and singles
The record industry (article)
- Larrikin Label Discography
- Larrikin in the NLA
- Larrikin Records and Larrikin Music Founder Speaks Out
- Larrikin Label List [pdf]
- Larrikin Catalogue Images
- Yesterday's Australia Catalogue [pdf]
Radio and television
Long live the ABC. In providing me with the opportunity to script and present radio programs the ABC also spurred me on to do more and more research. As they say: "I have a better face for radio". Despite this I managed to get my mug on television.
Radio - the Broadcaster
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