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Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
Gregory, Mark
http://redflag.org.au/node/5222Date Written: 2016-04-08 Publisher: Red Flag Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19157 Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First Fleet onwards. This street literature was hawked for less than a penny and was sung, or "chaunted" by the seller to a large audience, many of them poor. HP Such's ballad provides us with a sample of the early industrial working class' emotional and political understanding of the rising empire. Subject Headings |