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'This essay explores the relationship between folksong in its classic state and songs and poems that report and describe life in industrial society - Industrial Songs. It also considers the tradition of industrial song in Australia, and finds it as important a strand as the bush tradition.' (p. 86)
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Subjects:
- The Colliers' Strike Song 1885 single work poetry
- The Big Book of Australian Folk Songs 1976 single work
- Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People 1953 anthology poetry
- Botany Bay 1885 single work poetry
- What About the People? 1962 single work poetry
- Second Class Wait Here 1900 single work poetry
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