Joan Martin recorded by Chris Sullivan in the Chris Sullivan folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 397879
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Martin, Joan, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1986 Apr
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 117 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
- Summary:
-
Folkloric recording, Joan Martin talks about life in country NSW and Queensland during the 1920s and 1930s, sings and recites.
- Full contents:
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- REEL 353, Joan Martin, conversation:
- family background, making up rhymes
- Singing: Who Left the Crowbar Out in the Rain (family composition)
- Conversation: ring dances (Wattle, Boronia, Waratah), Old Bush Barn, North Sydney; bush musical expertise; band formation; city & bush music; One String Walter (fiddler); slaughtering; dancing prowess; dress of bush musicians
- Singing: Dance Around Kitchen Floor
- Conversation: homemade instruments; fun during Depression; grandmother's ointment; creating own entertainment.
- REEL 354, Joan Martin, conversation: her family's Snake in the Dunny tunes; snakes; dance tunes; mother attending dances; the Whistle Polka; family origins; stepdancing; Tidy Jig
- Singing: He learnt to Dance a Hornpipe
- Conversation: dancing hornpipes; Ned Kelly stories
- Singing: Babes in the Wood (varsovienna); family's use of tunes
- Recitation: My Brother's Foot
- Conversation: headache treatment; psychic Aborigine; living with death
- REEL 355: Conversation: modern influences in traditional music; old time bands; Toowoomba region music and dance life; piano as main instrument; Saturday night dances; dance hall discipline; new tunes; modern band line-up; ball etiquette
- REEL 356: Conversation: spontaneous music making encountered on the road; recitations; autograph albums; songs and instruments; entertaining talk, humour; mouth organs
- Singing: I was feeding the Poddy Calf
- Conversation: dislike of killing chickens; Toowoomba Relief Workers' Song; Aborigines yodelling
- Singing: Toowoomba Relief Workers' Song & yodel
- Conversation about the song
- Singing: Toowoomba Relief Workers' Song & yodel (repeat)
- Notes:
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- Recorded in April 1986, at Redesdale, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Folk singers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sullivan, Chris (Christopher Daniel), 1953-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Chris Sullivan folklore collection.
This collection contains 351 records. - Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2056 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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