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'Deadly Woman Blues, stunning, original and brimming with life, is the first of its kind. Part art book, part comic book, part biography and fully deadly, it is a unique graphic history of the black women who made Australian music. Traditional Indigenous music, spirituals, vaudeville, post-war jazz, country, gospel, soul, R&B and hip-hop have been made and re-made by these legendary women, some household names, some forgotten, some totally unknown until now. In this album of portraits, the long-awaited follow-on from Clinton Walker’s classic Buried Country, more than one hundred amazing artists are reborn. It’s as if a long-lost set of bubblegum cards has been found and remade for us, now.
'Starring Georgia Lee, Nellie Small, Candy Devine, Wilma Reading, Sibby Doolan, Ruby Hunter, Marlene Cummins, Tiddas, Carole Fraser, Christine Anu, Jessica Mauboy, Emma Donovan, Shellie Morris, Leah Flanagan, Crystal Mercy and many, many more singers and musicians, Deadly Woman Blues is a story full of tears and joy, always beautiful and heroic. ' (Publication summary)
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This volume was withdrawn from publication in March 2018: see works about for detailed critiques.
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Unreliable Narrators
2018
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— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2018;'Recent scandals in Australian non-fiction have highlighted publishers’ responsibilities not only to their readers but to their authors’ subjects. But is a failure of fact-checking solely to blame? Or are there further hidden risks in the way these revelations are reported?' (Introduction)
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What Writers and Publishers Must Learn from the Deadly Woman Blues Fiasco
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 March 2018; -
Book on Black Women Musicians Dumped after Explosive Claims Author Didn’t Interview Artists
2018
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— Appears in: NITV News , March 2018;
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Book on Black Women Musicians Dumped after Explosive Claims Author Didn’t Interview Artists
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: NITV News , March 2018; -
What Writers and Publishers Must Learn from the Deadly Woman Blues Fiasco
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Conversation , 8 March 2018; -
Unreliable Narrators
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2018;'Recent scandals in Australian non-fiction have highlighted publishers’ responsibilities not only to their readers but to their authors’ subjects. But is a failure of fact-checking solely to blame? Or are there further hidden risks in the way these revelations are reported?' (Introduction)