Folk Music Journal, January 1st, 2007
Old Bush Songs: The Centenary Edition of Banjo Paterson's Classic Collection Edited by Warren Fahey and Graham Seal. Sydney: ABC Books, 2005. 324 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Discog. Index. ISBN 0 7333 15917. AU$32.95.
The national mythologies of Canada, the USA, and Australia each include a 'pioneer experience' with remarkably similar elements:
1. a 'wilderness' - the north, the woods, the west, the bush
2. a European pioneer population defined by male occupations - sourdoughs, loggers, cowboys, shearers, overlanders, swagmen
3. aboriginal residents who have until recently been a romantic sidebar ...
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