The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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... ballads were especially written for the market by professional street ballad - singers or ' chaunters ' , it would be a mis- take to imagine that therefore they were not folk - songs but self- conscious , literary work . The chaunters ...
... ballads were especially written for the market by professional street ballad - singers or ' chaunters ' , it would be a mis- take to imagine that therefore they were not folk - songs but self- conscious , literary work . The chaunters ...
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Russel Braddock Ward. don ... who live solely by ballad - singing and selling ballads and song - books . . . . There are five known authors for the Seven Dials Press , and they are all ballad - singers . I am one of these myself . The ...
Russel Braddock Ward. don ... who live solely by ballad - singing and selling ballads and song - books . . . . There are five known authors for the Seven Dials Press , and they are all ballad - singers . I am one of these myself . The ...
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... BALLADS Anderson , Hugh , Black Bull Chapbooks , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , etc. , Ferntree Gully , 1952 ff . Colonial Ballads , Ferntree Gully , 1955 . Goldrush Songster , Ferntree Gully , 1957 . Bradshaw , Jack , Highway Robbery under Arms ...
... BALLADS Anderson , Hugh , Black Bull Chapbooks , Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , etc. , Ferntree Gully , 1952 ff . Colonial Ballads , Ferntree Gully , 1955 . Goldrush Songster , Ferntree Gully , 1957 . Bradshaw , Jack , Highway Robbery under Arms ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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