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AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE UNIT

About the Australian Folklore Unit

Index to the Warren Fahey Oral History & Folklore Collection at the National Library of Australia.

about the collection
biographical note
Series 1: boxes 1-6

Collecting Folklore and music
The Folklore of Sydney Project 2004 – 2006 (overview) and link to new Sydney section

FOLKLORE/HISTORY/MUSIC COLLECTION

An Introduction to the Collection Material (rewrite coming)

THE COLLECTION  A-Z

Australian Aboriginal and Islander Perspectives

Overview
Songs About Aboriginality
Early Impressions
Aboriginal Based Sydney References
Natives of Australia
Death of King Boongarie

Australian Folk Music

Australia and its traditional music – an overview
What is Australian Folk Music?
Origins.
How Does Folk Music Change?
Folk music in a changing world
Relevance to the 21st Century
Characteristics
Hunting Down the Old Bush Songs: D.S. Mitchell

Australian States & Territories – Folklore & Curious History

Australian Perspectives
Foreword
What is Our National Type?
Australian Locality Songs 1900-1963
New South Wales (NSW) – Sydney and Cornstalks
Sydney: Bold Brash and Beautiful
– Introduction
– The Project
– The Survey Fields
– Collecting & Researching Folklore
A Commentary on Sydney
Social Manners
Entertainment
The Garden Palace
The Sydney Poor
Songs About Sydney
Sydney Harbour Bridge Songs
Contemporary songs about Sydney
Popular songs about Sydney
Sayings of old Sydney
Sydney Suburbs
Sydney place names and their history
Observations on Sydney
Smelly Old Sydney “On The Nose
Woolloomooloo’s History
A Snapshot of ‘Manar’
Paddington Born-Paddington Bred
Victoria (VIC) – Melbourne and Yarra Drinkers
Observations of Melbourne
Melbourne, City of Palaces
Middle Class Melbourne
The Model Lodging House
Fashion on the Field
South Australia (SA) – Adelaide and Croweaters
Western Australia (WA) – Perth and Sandgropers
Queensland (QLD) – Brisbane and Bananabenders
Norther Territory (NT) – Darwin and Territorians
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – Canberra and who cares?

Billy Barlow

Billy Barlow – an Australian Theatrical Phenomenon
The Many Songs of Billy Barlow
Hey Ho Raggedy-O: A Study of the Billy Barlow Phenomenon (written by Joy Hildebrand)

Bush Life

“What is the bush”?
Life in the bush
The Bushman’s Bible
Droving:
Ron Kerr – Reminiscences of a Working Drover
Boots and All – history of the boot in Australia
Bullock Driving
Shearing
Station life
Timber

Bushrangers

Bushranging – its origins
Bushrangers
Bushranger Exploits in NSW
Bushranging in Van Dieman’s Land
Medals for Bravery
Rewards Offered
Victims Murdered
Thunderbolt
Bushrangers Shot or Hanged
An analysis of Australian Highwayman Ballads
Carcoar – a portrait of a Country Town
links for example ‘Bail Up!” bushranging poetry

Calendar & Weather Lore

Calendar Lore
Sydney Weather Lore
Special Days and Holidays
The Merry Month of May
Thirty Days Hath September
Halloween in Australia
Christmas is a time of good cheer
Christmas Parodies

Children’s Lore

Kids Lore
Collecting Children’s lore
Methodology of Collection
School War Cries
School Songs
Bawdy kids’ rhymes
Games
Traditional games
Clapping games (includes 23 videos)
Kookaburra Sits on an Old Gum Tree
The Marion Sinclair story
Parodies
Correspondence Files
Songs From An Old Gum Tree

Classic Bush Poetry

Introduction
Index
Bail Up verse collection
Hard Yakka verse collection
The Demon Drink verse collection
Bush Life Bush Strife verse collection
Freedom on the Wallaby verse collection
Horses, Dogs and Dags verse collection
Australian Dreaming verse collection
Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies
The Language of the Bush
Jack Moses
Wilf Carter
The Life and Writings of Will Carter
Tumba-Bloody-Rumba Shootin’ Kanga-Bloody-Roos

Colloquial Sayings & Slanguage

Sayings from Contributors
The History of an Autograph Book
The History of The Bulletin
Antipodean Lexicon
One Hundred Words and Sayings of Australian Bushmen
Aussie Sayings

Concerts & Radio Specials

Radio Programs
Introduction
While the Billy Boils
The Australian Legend
Songs That Made Australia
Introduction
Introduction
Concerts
Songs of Struggle :(Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)
Joe Heaney
Don Banks Music Award
Songs That Made Australia
Introduction
Introduction

Convicts & Transportation

Australia – Its Discovery (an overview)
The Convict’s Tour of Hell
about the work
Cockatoo Island
Convict Broadsides
Convict Life
An overview
Stats
Letters
Convict embarkation
Sufferings of the convicts
Charles White: Convict Life extract
The Voyage
Convict Work
Convict New Chums
Separating Convicts
Female Convicts
punishment
Ticket of Leave
The Last Convict Ships
Curiosities
Convict Insurrection (Castle Hill)

Crime material in this needs to be allocated to convict and bushranging sections and Crime deleted.

Dance in Australia

History of Dance in Australia
Social Dance
History and overview of Morris Dance
Morris, Sword and Mummers Plays in Australia
Mel Ward’s Mummers Play script
Memories of a Woolshed Concert
Sydney Lord Mayor’s Fancy Dress Ball 1844
About the Fancy Ball – SMH 1844
List of Names and Characters
Fancy Dress Ball song
The Barn Dance

Demon Drink & Evil Weed

A Good Supply of Weed
Miscellaneous Lore
Demon Drink and Teetotalism
Lambing Down

Dogs – Folklore and History in Australia

Introduction
Dogs in Colonial Cities
Dogs on the Goldfields
Dogs and Bushrangers
The First Dog Show
Working Dogs
The Sheep Dog
The Scotch Sheep Dog
The Droverís Dog
Cur Dogs
Lurchers
Dogs in the Cattle Industry
Dogs as Mates
Dog Shoes
Dog Names
Talking Dogs
Dogs and Language
Dogs in Song and Verse

Eccentrics

Introduction
Eccentrics
Swag Carriers
Street sellers and their chants
Oddities of suburban and rural life
‘Hungry’ Tyson yarns
Flying Pieman
Up on Your Soapbox, Johnny
Early Street Entertainers & Beggars

Gaylore

Gaylore – folklore of the gay and lesbian sub-culture
Drag Names
Emigration and Free Settlers

Emigration and Free Settlers

Emigration and Free selection
Female Emigrants
Moley Hoses – Will H. Lister
Chinese
Others

Hall of Fame – Legendary Australian Performers
Music Hall
Vaudeville
Early Radio
Country & Western
Jazz & Swing
Folk music

Humour