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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.
Oral Recordings
      Recordings 1971 – 2003
       Recordings 2004 onwards.
Collecting Folklore and music. (article)
The Folklore of Sydney Project 2004 – 2006 (overview)
Hunting Down the Old Bush Songs: D.S. Mitchell (article)
American influences on Australian traditional music (article)

THE AUSTRALIAN FOLK REVIVAL

Australia and its traditional music – an overview (article)
The role of folk clubs (article)
Some observations on Australian folk song & music: some necessary labels (article)
History of Australian folk clubs and key artists: The Malcolm J Turnbull Archive (articles)
Memories

COLLECTED FOLKLORE, POETRY and SONG

An Introduction to the Collected Material

Bush Life

      Life in the Bush
            Bush Life
            Shearing
            Station life
            Droving
            Timber (...coming)
      Boots & all: history of the boot in Australia
      The Bushman’s Bible: History of The Bulletin
      The ‘dunny’: a history
      The language of the bush
      Land of Forests, Fleas and Flies - an article by Peter J Bridge

Bushrangers

       Bushranging accounts (...coming)
      The Highwayman tradition (...coming)
      Bushranger ballads in Australia (index) (...coming)

Calendar Lore

      Calendar lore (intro)
      Special days and holidays
      Sydney weather lore
      May Traditions  (article ... The Merry Month of May)

Children’s Lore

      Kids Lore
      Methodology of collection
      Collecting children’s lore (article)
      Bawdy kid’s rhymes
      School war cries
      School songs
      Games
            Clapping games (includes 23 videos)
            Traditional games

City Life

      Contemporary songs about Sydney
      Country meets city
      Songs about city life
      Sayings of old Sydney
      Sydney place names and their history
      Observations on Sydney
      Observations on Melbourne
      Woolloomooloo’s Surprising and Colourful History
      A Waltz Through History - A Snapshot of 'Manar'
      Kings Bloody Cross (article ... coming)

Classic Bush Poetry

      Introduction
      Indexes
      Freedom on the Wallaby verse collection
      Demon Drink verse collection
      Bush Life and Bush Strife verse collection
      Bail Up! verse collection
      Hard Yakka verse collection
      Australian Dreaming verse collection
      Jack Moses  

Colonial Experience ( ... coming)

Colloquial Sayings

      Colloquial Sayings and Stories from Contributors

Convicts & Transportation

      The Convict's Tour of Hell
      Convict Broadsides

Crime

Dance in Australia

      History of Dance in Australia
      Social Dance in Australia (article)
      A History and Overview of Morris Dance
            Morris, Sword and Mummers Plays in Australia (article)
            Mel Ward’s Mummer’s Play script
      Bawdry and dance– (article)
      Memories of a woolshed concert (excerpt)
      Old English Folk Dance Club - images ( ... coming)

Demon Drink & Evil Weed

      A good supply of weed: histories of tobacco & grog (article)
      Miscellaneous lore
      Teetotalism
      cigarettes and pipe smoking history  [article ... coming)

Eccentrics

      Introduction
      Eccentrics
      Swag Carriers
      Street sellers and their chants
      Oddities of suburban and rural life
      ‘Hungry’ Tyson yarns
       Flying Pieman

Gaylore

      article
      Drag Names

Gold

      Gold history

Emigration and Free Settlers

      Emigration and Free selection
      Female Emigrants

Hall of Fame

Hoax letters ( ... coming)

Humour & Folklore

      article on Bawdry
       Bill Harney Songs

Indigenous

Labour History

      Songs and selections from ‘labour; and ‘socialist’ newspapers
   Don't Go Down the Mine, Daddy : Beaconsfield Folklore (article)
      Miscellaneous items.
      Workplace pranks and Initiation ceremonies (... coming).

Maritime

       Where are the Maritime Songs? (article)
      The story of the Nancy Lee (article ... coming)
      Superstitions and History
      Songs & ditties
      Ships
      Songs from the Shackleton Expedition to Antartica

Migrants

      Miscellaneous
      Migration section - No Irish Need Apply

Military

      Army Songs are part of our ‘digger’ tradition (article)
      How Would You Be?(traditional monologue)
      Digger's Songs
      Military Songs Additions

Minstrelsy

      Minstrelsy Tradition in Australia (article)
      Minstrelsy and the banjo in Australia (article)

Money & Folklore

      Boom & bust on the money-go-round (article)

Musical Instruments In The Australian Tradition

      How to build bush band instruments. (guide)
      The Big Squeeze: history of concertina and accordions
             Concertina and Melodeon History
             Concertina Doctor of Bathurst
             Salvation Army Concertina Bands

Popular Entertainment

      Popular songs about Sydney
      Songs about the Sydney Harbour Bridge
      Australian locality songs 1900-1963

Popular Press Clippings

Reminiscences and diaries

      diary snippets and notes
      Write here please: history of an autograph book

Shock Horror - the Folklore of Disaster (online book)

Songsters & Songbooks

      I’ve Got The Music Right Here In My Pocket: History of songsters in Australia
      Index to Australian songs in Imperial songsters
      Index to Australian songs in Boomerang songsters
      Index to Australian songs in Australian Melodists songsters
      Index to Australian songs in the Queenslanders New Colonial Campfire Songbook
      Index to Australian songs in Tibb's Songbooks
      Index to Australian songs in the Victorian songster
      Index to Australian songs in other songsters
      M J Conlon (article - coming)

Sport

      Sports Crazy & Gambling Mad (article)
      Football
      Boxing, Wrestling & Strongmen
      Cricket
      Horseracing
      Miscellaneous sport
      The History of the Melbourne & Caulfield Cup (article)

Superstitions in Australia

      Introduction (article)
      Australian ghosts
      Supernatural case studies
      SpookytTales
      Stage and Theatre Superstitions
      Urban myths
      Mel Ward (article & superstitions survey)

Transport

      The Iron Road – history of rail in Australia (article)
      Railway folklore
      Tram folklore
      Ferries
      Drays and Carts and Horses and Bullocks
      Miscellaneous transport

Tucker

      Tea and Coffee
      You Are What You Eat: Restaurants

Wedding & other celebratory lore

      When those wedding bells toll: wedding superstitions/customs (article)
      The Mini Book of Wedding Lore (online book)

ABOUT WARREN FAHEY

Warren Fahey - Family History

         There are lots of stories from my youth but suffice to say my family background was a healthy and happy one....read about the early days

Performer of Bush traditions

         Over the past thirty something years I have performed in some weird and wonderful places.
            Songs From My Swag (article)
           the performer
           a potted history of The Folk Revival
           Warren Fahey & the concertina
           a discography of recordings
          The Larrikins– pioneer bush band
           photo gallery

Concert and event producer

      Lorient Festival InterCeltique (podcast)
      2007 Old Sydney Festival

The writer

      list of published books and contributions to anthologies
      magazine and newspaper articles

The record producer

      about the larrikin label
      larrikin label lps and singles
      The record industry (article)

Radio and television

      Long live the ABC. In providing me with the opportunity to script and present radio programs the ABC also spurred me on to do more and more research. As they say: "I have a better face for radio". Despite this I managed to get my mug on television.
          Radio - the Broadcaster
          Television

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

      This is a full list of what I have deposited in the National Library of Australia - I gave it to the nation under the Cultural Gifts Program. There are several sections and this is the index.
          about the collection
          biographical note
          Series 1: boxes 1-6

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