Complete book of Australian folk lore Tapa dura - 1976

U. Smith, 1976 Ure Smith Hard Cover 1976 429 pages some rubbing to dj and minor discolouring to extreme page edges Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

U. Smith, 1976. Hardcover. Good.

Ure SMith, Sydney, NSW, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. For such a young country, Australia has a strongly developed and unique folk lore heritage. With its origins in an amalgam of the more rebellious elements of British society, the Australian character quickly developed traits that were more than a mere sum of its antecedent parts. Ties with England, Scotland, Ireland and America flavoured the development of much of our folk material: the tunes of our folksongs are those the early settlers (both convict and free) brought with them from the old countries, and many of these can also be found in North America; the words, of course, are very much our own. The tall story (the bush lie) is perhaps the most distinctively Australian form-and is still flourishing. Rhyme and rhythm are great aids to memory. So, in a society that was largely illiterate, verse was a popular form, and the poems and ballads have a drive and simple directness of language that is their… Leer más

Ure Smith, Sydney, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 1.7 kg; 429 pages, appendix, index. Colour illustrated dust jacket, numerous black-and-white drawings, and reproductions of paintings and advertisements etc; monotone green line drawings, musical scores. Divided into five sections, The History That Shaped a Tradition; Traditional Songs; The Tall Story; Poems and Ballads; and Oddments and Fragments; along with an appendix of the museums of Australia. "Using material written at the time, this book looks at the History that shaped our tradition -- the initial struggle for survival, the suffering of the convicts , the isolation from all that was familiar, the distances tramped from one job to the next, the necessity for "sticking together" which formed the code of mateship, the struggles of the squatters and the free selectors, the excitement of the gold rushes and the hardships of the diggers, and especially the… Leer más

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1976. 429pp; illustrated, page edges tanned; pictorial blue d/j with edgewear and chipping, white title to spine.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.