Lola Wright interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1578307
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Wright, Lola, 1926-2018, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2001 November 26
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 117 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Wright born in Childers, Qld. retired publician sings folk songs and recalls her childhood years; music in the family; bush dances at Glenreach; her Catholic education & attending University at Armidale in 1944; popular songs of the 1940s and 1950s; childrens rhymes; father returning home from POW camp; her teaching career; teaching manual dexterity with rhymes & songs actions and ditties; nursery rhymes used for rhythm lessons every day; school games; lower wages & conditions for female teachers & union equal pay campaign; her political involvement with Communist Party & Labor Party; Reedy River songs; forming the South Coast Bush Band (1956-1960); band activities supporting causes; bush band repertoire; Reedy River songbook; her second job playing piano in pubs & at weddings.
- Partial contents:
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- Tape 1: Singing: You're going to leave the old home town, Jim (Nobbie Cowling song)
- Can I sleep in your barn tonight, mister? (Nobby Cowling song)
- fragment of a racist ditty
- We're getting it by degrees
- When College days are o'er
- Come back to your brother and sisters
- Chloe
- Recitation: We're sitting on the stile, Mary (first line of poem)
- Tape 2 Singing: The hungry miner
- extra verse of The hungry miner
- The red flag
- Australia's on the wallaby
- The Tiki (in Kiera St. Wollongong)
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Bruce Cameron.
- Recorded on Nov. 26, 2001 at Morundah, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
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- Wright, Lola, 1926-2018 -- Interviews
- South Coast Bush Band (N.S.W.)
- Folk singers -- New South Wales -- Morundah -- Interviews
- Folk poetry, Australian -- New South Wales
- Folk songs, English -- New South Wales -- 20th century
- Folk music -- New South Wales -- 20th century
- Political ballads and songs -- Australia
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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