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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru
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'Like other members of the Stolen Generation, Bob Randall was taken away from his family by white authorities. He was seven years old. As an adult he began the long process of finding his family again...and establishing a career as an Aboriginal educator. He is now a renowned singer and performer...

Woven through Randall's story like the Rainbow Serpent is a clear account of the Aboriginal worldview and philosophy...At once a gripping autobiography and an outstanding lucid account of Aboriginal spirituality and belief...' Source: Publisher's blurb

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:ABC Books , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Brown Skin Babyi"Yaaawee, yaahaawawee, My brown skin baby they take 'im away.", Bob Randall , single work poetry

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: ABC Books , 2003 .
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      Extent: xi, 273p.p.
      Description: illus. (some col.).
      Note/s:
      • Includes:

        • Foreword by Paul Newbury (ix-xi)
        • Glossary of Aboriginal words in the text (pp.254-257)
        • References and Notes(p.258-271)
      ISBN: 0733312624

Other Formats

Works about this Work

Songman Deborah Ruiz Wall , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Common Theology , Summer vol. 2 no. 8 2008; (p. 20-22)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
Kin-fused Reconciliation : Bringing Them Home, Bringing Us Home Fiona Probyn , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , August no. 42 2007;
'Fiona Probyn-Rapsey discusses the biopolitical management of Indigenous people within the contemporary nation through an analysis of white liberal discourse on Reconciliation. She looks specifically at the image of the nation as family and the pedagogic nationalist argument for extending the "white" family to include Aboriginal kin and to "bind Aboriginality to whiteness". She analyses how a wide range of Indigenous life narratives (including those by Morgan, Russell, Pilkington-Garimara, Lalor, Scott and Brown, Kinnane, Simon and Randall) describe familial relations between white and Indigenous family members. She argues, in her formulation of the phrase "kin-fused Reconciliation", that a liberal "extended family" model of the Nation is potentially assimilationist' (Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Introduction).
In Short : Non-Fiction Bruce Elder , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 September 2003; (p. 19)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
'Songman' Tells His Life Story 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 July no. 304 2003; (p. 34)
Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 July 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
Miscellany Tony Maniaty , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 June 2003; (p. 12)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 July 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
In Short : Non-Fiction Bruce Elder , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 September 2003; (p. 19)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
Songman Deborah Ruiz Wall , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Common Theology , Summer vol. 2 no. 8 2008; (p. 20-22)

— Review of Songman : The Story of an Aboriginal Elder of Uluru Bob Randall , 2003 single work life story
'Songman' Tells His Life Story 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 July no. 304 2003; (p. 34)
Kin-fused Reconciliation : Bringing Them Home, Bringing Us Home Fiona Probyn , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , August no. 42 2007;
'Fiona Probyn-Rapsey discusses the biopolitical management of Indigenous people within the contemporary nation through an analysis of white liberal discourse on Reconciliation. She looks specifically at the image of the nation as family and the pedagogic nationalist argument for extending the "white" family to include Aboriginal kin and to "bind Aboriginality to whiteness". She analyses how a wide range of Indigenous life narratives (including those by Morgan, Russell, Pilkington-Garimara, Lalor, Scott and Brown, Kinnane, Simon and Randall) describe familial relations between white and Indigenous family members. She argues, in her formulation of the phrase "kin-fused Reconciliation", that a liberal "extended family" model of the Nation is potentially assimilationist' (Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Introduction).
Last amended 5 May 2020 13:45:05
Subjects:
  • Far North South Australia, South Australia,
  • Croker Island, West Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
  • Uluru, South West Northern Territory, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
  • Aboriginal Yankunytjatjara One of the Wati languages AIATSIS Code: C4 SA language
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