Speaking of us : voices from twentieth-century Australia / Barry York
- Bib ID:
- 1609597
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- York, Barry, 1951-, author
- Description:
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- Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1999
- ©1999
- iv, 159 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 0642107157 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"This book is concerned with the voices of the twentieth century. In presenting these excerpts from interviews in the National Library of Australia's Oral History Collection ... [the] aim has been to achieve a sense of what it has meant to be an Australian, in Australia, during the twentieth century. The excerpts reflect on events, people, places and themes - war, economic crisis, national identity, Aborigines, science, computer technology, women's liberation, class struggle, art (in its broadest sense, which includes architecture, photography and cartoons), music, the bush, entertainment, literature, sport, leisure, aviation, natural disaster, religion, immigration, multiculturalism - from the viewpoint of the interviewees' own experience".
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- The century: an overview
- Early recollections
- Aboriginal Australians
- Historical studies
- National identity
- Our language
- Life in the bush
- Artists
- Photographers
- Writers, poets and playwrights
- ...and a librarian
- Music
- Stars of stage and screen
- Television
- Our film industry
- Cyclone "Tracy"
- Religious life
- Sport
- Work and unemployment
- The Snowy Mountains Scheme
- Rebels and reformers
- War
- Science and medicine
- Government
- The Republic question
- Selected references.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 153-154.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Library of Australia, issuing body
- Also Titled:
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- Voices from twentieth-century Australia
- Voices from 20th century Australia
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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