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Once a jolly swagman : the ballad of Waltzing Matilda / Matthew Richardson
Bib ID 3704175
Format BookBook
Author
Richardson, Matthew
 
Online Versions
Description Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2006 
x, 230 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 3 1/8 in.) 
ISBN 9780522853087  0522853080 
Summary

Waltzing Matilda is the one song that belongs to all Australians. It has been bringing people together since 1895, when Banjo Patterson wrote the words to it. This book asks what the song means to the nation.

Full contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Preface vii
  • Waltzing Matilda Country
  • Up Came the Squatters 14
  • The Composer and the Poet 13
  • Swagmen 44
  • The Long Long Arm of the Law 5-6
  • Making a Song 64
  • What Does it Mean? 86
  • Centuries in the Making? io6
  • From the Billabong to the World 130
 
Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 225-227.

Subjects Waltzing Matilda (Song)  |  Songs, English - Australia.  |  National songs - Australia - History and criticism.  |  Folklore - Australia.  |  National characteristics, Australian.  |  Folk, Ethnic & World music (Australia)

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Copy: NL hbk
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In Use (Due back 23-06-2013)
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N 782.421599 R524
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Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)

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