Outback Songman: My Life.
Egan Ted. 2019. Outback Songman : My Life. Sydney N.S.W: Allen & Unwin.
ISBN 9781760529871, 1760529877
Review
The first book I borrowed from the Maribyrnong Library when I joined in 2023... Ted Egan is a great story-teller through his books and music: so this book is no exception. I enjoyed reading it in the almost record time of a just few more days than a long weekend. There were quite a few pink sticky notes inserted, as I learned a lot from the master:
- For instance: Egan's definition of Yolngu seems at odds with the popularised version on Wikipedia. (p86) Yolgnu - not a tribe or clan, it's more like 'we belong here'...
- His bucket list wish of going to Ireland and performing Amhrán na bhFiann in a pub, in Gaelic. (p.119)
- His growing respect for Australian Folk Music festival performers, organisers and promoters, including: Roger Montgomery and Dr Jamie McKew (Geelong and Port Fairy, Victoria; p.305); and historians Peter Ellis and Shirley Andrews (p.307)
- Kelly Dixon is the author of one of my favourite Australian Songs: Leave him in the longyard. (p.231)
- His love of two songs with strong roots in New Zealand (p.160):
Pokarekare Ana - rendition
Po Atarau - details
- Egan's respect for Russel Ward's book The Australian Legend . (p.147)
- Egan's thoughts on the consumption of alcohol (p.295): Alcohol must promote conviviality - otherwise, give it a miss...
Thanks to my mate Ferg Pedley for bringing Ted Egan's signing and songs to my attention, some 45 years ago (c1975).
Text Review (Other reading of related texts)
Where do you start with comparible texts to such a polymath? Songwriting? Story-telling? Aboriginal history since invasion and colonisation? Politics? Land Rights? Northern Territory? Darwin? Working-class Australians following the Great Depression? Folk Songs and Folk Singers? Australian Music Festivals?
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Egan Ted. 2019. Outback Songman : My Life. Sydney N.S.W: Allen & Unwin..
Footnotes:
Worldcat: www.worldcat.org
From 2023 I am using the author-date referencing style of Chicago author-date (17th edition).
Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles in Chicago author-date (17th edition)
Reference List / In-Text Citation Styles: University of Newcastle, NSW
Unless otherwise noted all books listed were in my personal library at the time of the first blog posting about the book.
Some titles were borrowed or referenced from RMIT University libraries (City, Carlton, Brunswick Campuses) during the period 2006-2016; or from Hobsons Bay City Council library; or Maribyrnong Library ; or Bayside (Brighton) Council library, or Prahran Mechanics Institute (& ARHS) library.
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