Elio Rigo and Marisa Rigo interviewed by Rob Willis for the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2063914
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Rigo, Elio, 1928-2008, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2000
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 39 min)
- Series:
- Voices of the bush oral history project.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Elio Rigo retired cane cutter plays the mouthorgan and sings & Marisa Rigo discuss their lives as Italian migrants in Australia. He recalls learning to play the mouthorgan, playing it whilst doing his Army service in Italy; miming was very popular; that his father played the mandolin.
Marisa Rigo was born 22-5-1939 in Venice in Italy. She recalls meeting Elio in Italy; emigrating to Australia in 1958; her working life on a poultry farm and in a hospital; missing her family in Italy and the old traditions; early life in Australia, mixing with other nationalities; learning to speak the language; life in Cairns; employer's wife helping out with certain things; community spirit in Cairns; keeping the Italian cultural traditions; their children learnt Italian when little but found it difficult to carry it on through their school years due to peer pressure and assimilation; differences in food and the non-availablility of Italian produce; trading chicken for fish with an Aboriginal; the whole family taking on extra work to earn more money; Elio's work as cane cutter and at the brewery; meeting many good people.
- Partial contents:
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- Elio sings and plays: Tune, The chooks are all mad (mouthorgan)
- Tune, fragment of tune which is a fascist song Sun rising in Rome (mouthorgan)
- Tune, repeat The Chooks are mad (mouthorgan)
- Tune, fragment unidentified (mouthorgan)
- Singing, The Chooks are all mad in Venetian dialect
- Tune, fragment unidentified (miniature mouthorgan)
- Notes:
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- For further information relating to Elio Rigo see Tape 1 of this interview located at ORAL TRC 4572/14
- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on May 12, 2000 at Capalaba, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available (2 p.)
- Subject:
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- Rigo, Elio, 1928-2008 -- Interviews
- Rigo, Marisa, 1939- -- Interviews
- Folk singers -- Queensland -- Cairns -- Interviews
- Folk musicians -- Queensland -- Cairns -- Interviews
- Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia
- Community life -- Queensland -- Cairns
- Sugar cane industry -- Queensland -- Cairns -- Social conditions
- Sugar cane industry -- Queensland -- Cairns -- Economic conditions
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2000
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