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Posted By: GUEST,Dominique
28-Oct-09 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Australian Songs of Influence
Subject: RE: Australian Songs of Influence
I have no idea what happened to the rest of this thread. For me it ends here in April 2009 when there was at least another two months of thread. To provide some kind of conclusion to my involvement I offer the following.
In no way does what I say represent an official position as I have well and truly finished my work at the Museum of Australian Democracy. There are too many wonderful Australian songs to think of defining a hit parade and my role in the project was simply as researcher. I did not make the final choice. Thank you for your help and generosity in being involved in this first selection which hopefully is not an end in itself but the beginning of a developing dialogue about the power and beauty of Australian songs.
You may notice there are twenty nine songs because one internationally famous Australian band declined to be included in the selection. These are the songs:
Archer, Robyn Menstruation Blues
Blue King Brown Come and Check Your Head
Bogle, Eric And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Carmody, Kev Cannot Buy My Soul
Cox, Kerrianne Beagle Bay Dreaming
De Bortoli, Lucia [trad] Mama Mia Don me Cento Lire
Hewett, Dorothy and Mike Leyden Weevils In The Flour
Hicks, Peter and Geoff Francis One day in October
Hunter, Ruby Down City Streets
Luscombe, Jack [trad] Sam Griffiths
Mazella, Kavisha Love and Justice
McCormick, Peter Dodds Advance Australia Fair
Midnight Oil US Forces
Mills Sisters Waltzing Matilda (Wadjimbat Matilda)
O'Loughlin, Tim and Angie McGowan No dams
Palmer, Helen and Doreen Bridges Ballad of 1891
Randall, Bob My Brown Skin Baby
Reddy, Helen and Ray Burton I am Woman
Slim Dusty When the Rain Tumbles Down in July
Sloan, Sally Ben Hall
Small, Judy Mothers Daughters Wives
Storer, Sara Land Cries Out
The Herd The King is Dead
The Saints Stranded
Warner, Dan & Dastey, Sally Anthem
Warumpi Band Blackfella Whitefella
Wiggan, Roy Bardi Ilma
Wright, Lola and Ruth Shepherd The Equal Pay Song
Youthu Yindi Treaty
You can hear these songs in the Living Democracy gallery at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra.