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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.
Oral Recordings
Recordings 1971 – 2003
Recordings 2004 onwards.
Collecting Folklore and music. (article)
The Folklore of Sydney Project 2004 – 2006 (overview)
Hunting Down the Old Bush Songs: D.S. Mitchell (article)
American influences on Australian traditional music (article)
THE AUSTRALIAN FOLK REVIVAL
Australia and its traditional music – an overview (article)
The role of folk clubs (article)
Some observations on Australian folk song & music: some necessary labels (article)
History of Australian folk clubs and key artists: The Malcolm J Turnbull Archive (articles)
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
COLLECTED FOLKLORE, POETRY and SONG
An Introduction to the Collected Material
Bush Life
Life in the BushBush Life
Shearing
Station life
Droving
Timber (...coming)
Boots & all: history of the boot in Australia
Ron Kerr - Reminiscences of a Working Drover
The Bushman’s Bible: History of The Bulletin
The ‘dunny’: a history
The language of the bush
Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies - an article by Peter J Bridge
Carcoar - a portrait of a Country Town
Bushrangers
BushrangersBushranger 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
Calendar Lore
Calendar lore (intro)Special days and holidays
Sydney weather lore
May Traditions (article ... The Merry Month of May)
Children’s Lore
Kids LoreMethodology of collection
Collecting children’s lore (article)
Bawdy kid’s rhymes
School war cries
School songs
Games
Clapping games (includes 23 videos)
Traditional games
Kookaburra Sits on an Old Gum Tree
The Marion Sinclair story
Parodies
Correspondence Files
Six Songs From An Old Gum Tree
City Life
Life in the CitiesMelbourne
- City of Palaces
- Middle Class Melbourne
- The Model Lodging House
- Fashion on the Field
Sydney
- Commentary
- Social Manners
- Entertainment
- The Garden Palace
- Sydney Poor
Contemporary songs about Sydney
Country meets city
Songs about city life
Sayings of old Sydney
Sydney place names and their history
SYDNEY: Bash, Bold and Beautiful
Observations on Sydney
Observations on Melbourne
Smelly Old Sydney “On The Nose”
Woolloomooloo’s Surprising and Colourful History
A Waltz Through History - A Snapshot of 'Manar'
Paddington Born-Paddington Bred
Up on Your Soapbox, Johnny
Classic Bush Poetry
IntroductionIndexes
Freedom on the Wallaby verse collection
Demon Drink verse collection
Bush Life and Bush Strife verse collection
Bail Up! verse collection
Hard Yakka verse collection
Australian Dreaming verse collection
Will Carter
Jack Moses
The Clive Carey Collection
An Introduction to the collectionAbout Clive Carey
Notes on Provenance
From George Pattison
From Malcolm Forbes
Colonial Experience ( ... coming)
Colloquial Sayings
Colloquial Sayings and Stories from ContributorsConvicts & 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
Dance in Australia
History of Dance in AustraliaSocial Dance in Australia (article)
A History and Overview of Morris Dance
Morris, Sword and Mummers Plays in Australia (article)
Mel Ward’s Mummer’s Play script
Bawdry and dance– (article)
Memories of a woolshed concert (excerpt)
Old English Folk Dance Club - images ( ... coming)
Demon Drink & Evil Weed
A good supply of weed: histories of tobacco & grog (article)Miscellaneous lore
Teetotalism
cigarettes and pipe smoking history [article ... coming)
Lambing Down
Folklore and Social History of the Dog in Australia
IntroductionDogs in Colonial Cities
Dogs on the Goldfields
Dogs and Bushrangers
The First Dog Show
Working Dogs
The Sheep Dog
The Scotch Sheep Dog
The Drover’s 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
IntroductionEccentrics
Swag Carriers
Street sellers and their chants
Oddities of suburban and rural life
‘Hungry’ Tyson yarns
Flying Pieman
Gaylore
articleDrag Names
Gold
Gold historyLicence-Hunting
A Draper in Australia
A Digger Hunt
Emigration and Free Settlers
Emigration and Free selectionFemale Emigrants
Hall of Fame
Hoax letters ( ... coming)
Humour & Folklore
article on BawdryBill Harney Songs
Aussie Humour - a contribution by Ian M Johnstone
Indigenous
Songs about Aboriginality - a selectionEarly Impressions
Labour History
Songs and selections from ‘labour; and ‘socialist’ newspapersDon't Go Down the Mine, Daddy : Beaconsfield Folklore (article)
Miscellaneous items.
The New Unionism
Maritime
Where are the Maritime Songs? (article)The story of the Nancy Lee (article ... coming)
Superstitions and History
Songs & ditties
Ships
Songs from the Shackleton Expedition to Antartica
All at Sea - Maritime Folklore
Damned Souls & Turning Wheels
The Clive Carey Collection
Migrants
Moley Hoses - Will H. ListerChinese
Others
Military
Army Songs are part of our ‘digger’ tradition (article)How Would You Be?(traditional monologue)
Digger's Songs
Gunner Peck
Military Songs Additions
Minstrelsy
Minstrelsy Tradition in Australia (article)Minstrelsy and the banjo in Australia (article)
Money & Folklore
Boom & bust on the money-go-round (article)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
Popular songs about SydneySongs about the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Australian locality songs 1900-1963
Sydney Lord Mayor's Ball 1844
List of names and characters
Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball song
The Many Songs of Billy Barlow
Hey Ho Raggedy-O: A Study of the Billy Barlow Phenomenon (written by Joy Hildebrand)
The Larrikin Recording Label
- About The Larrikin Label- 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]
Popular Press Clippings
Reminiscences and diaries
diary snippets and notesWrite here please: history of an autograph book
Songsters & Songbooks
I’ve Got The Music Right Here In My Pocket: History of songsters in AustraliaIndex 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 (article)
Australian ghosts
Supernatural case studies
Spooky Tales
Spooky New South Wales
Stage and Theatre Superstitions
Urban myths
Mel Ward (article & superstitions survey)
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
Tea and CoffeeYou Are What You Eat: Restaurants
The History of the Biscuit in Australia
Polly Wolly - Polly Waffle - "mmm, crunch, aah!"
Wedding & other celebratory lore
When those wedding bells toll: wedding superstitions/customs (article)ONLINE BOOKS
Hey Ho Raggedy-O: A Study of the Billy Barlow Phenomenon (written by Joy Hildebrand)Shock Horror: Folklore of Disaster (written by Warren Fahey)
PODCASTS AND MEDIA FILES
Radio ProgramsIntroduction
While the Billy Boils
The Australian Legend
Songs That Made Australia
Concerts
Songs of Struggle - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger with Warren Fahey (1976)
Joe Heaney at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Don Banks Music Award presented to Warren Fahey 2010 at the National Folk Festival in Canberra
Folklore Films
Podcasts
Festival InterCeltique
ABOUT WARREN FAHEY
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 daysPerformer of Bush traditions
Over the past thirty something years I have performed in some weird and wonderful places.Songs From My Swag (article)
the performer
a potted history of The Folk Revival
Warren Fahey & the concertina
a discography of recordings
The Larrikins– pioneer bush band
photo gallery
Concert and event producer
Lorient Festival InterCeltique (podcast)2007 Old Sydney Festival
The writer
list of published books and contributions to anthologiesmagazine and newspaper articles
The record producer
about the larrikin labellarrikin label lps and singles
The record industry (article)
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
Television
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
This is a full list of what I have deposited in the National Library of Australia - I gave it to the nation under the Cultural Gifts Program. There are several sections and this is the index.about the collection
biographical note
Series 1: boxes 1-6
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