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Issue Details: First known date: 1949... 1949 Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Adelaide, South Australia,:Rigby , 1968 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Dreamtimei"The Dreamtime heroes move: like phantoms deep", W. E. Harney , A. P. Elkin (editor), single work poetry (p. 15-16)
Wanderer's Lamenti"Poor fellow me,", W. E. Harney , A. P. Elkin , single work poetry (p. 110)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1968 .
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      Extent: 178p.
      Edition info: New and rev. ed.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Partial contents indexed. Remainder pending.
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Works about this Work

Australian Literature’s Legacies of Cultural Appropriation Michael R. Griffiths , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 October 2018;

'Non-Indigenous Australian writers face a dilemma. On the one hand, they can risk writing about Aboriginal people and culture and getting it wrong. On the other, they can avoid writing about Aboriginal culture and characters, but by doing so, erase Aboriginality from the story they tell.' (Introduction)
The Politics of the Voice : Ethnographic Fetishism and Australian Literary Studies Richard J. Martin , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 2 2013; 'The politics of representing Aboriginality often focuses on questions of authorship and appropriation. Much of this criticism rests on the simplistic assumption that texts created by collaboration and even uneven collaboration are not in some respects voiced by their subject or subjects. This paper discusses two popular texts about Aboriginal ceremonial songs or ‘songlines’ in order to challenge this assumption, reading Bill Harney with A. P. Elkin’s Songs of the Songmen: Aboriginal Myths Retold (1949), and John Bradley with Yanyuwa Families’ Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria (2010) as Aboriginal texts. These texts are particularly interesting insofar as they focus attention on the relationship between voice and text, as well as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, being the products of collaboration by the anthropologists Elkin and Bradley with, on the one hand, a non-Aboriginal ‘Protector’ and popular writer (Harney), and, on the other, the subjects of the ethnography themselves (that is Yanyuwa Families). As I argue, the shifting ways in which the songlines of northern Australia are voiced in Songs of the Songmen and Singing Saltwater Country provides insights into the politics of representing Aboriginality in Australia, and the forces that have historically affected it. The close analysis of these texts focuses attention on the role of ethnographic fetishism for the exotic and authentic within the changing context of cultural production in Australia.' (Author's abstract)
Untitled Scrutarius , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Walkabout , vol. 35 no. 10 1969; (p. 45-46)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Untitled R. Robinson , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 July 1969; (p. 20)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Untitled A. Massola , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 1969; (p. 13)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Untitled Leonhard Adam , 1950 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 9 no. 4 1950; (p. 317-318)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Aboriginal Songs Frederick T. Macartney , 1950 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 11 no. 4 1950; (p. 207-209)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
The Elkin Ring 1950 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 January vol. 71 no. 3647 1950; (p. 2)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
[Review] Songs of the Songmen Katharine England , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 June 1969; (p. 14)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Untitled A. Massola , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 1969; (p. 13)
— Review of Songs of the Songmen : Aboriginal Myths Retold 1949 anthology short story
Personal Paragraph Douglas Lockwood , 1959 single work prose
— Appears in: Crocodiles and Other People 1959; (p. 126-137) Lockwood's homage to Bill Harney, a man for whom he has great respect and admiration.
Literature and the Aborigines Frederick T. Macartney , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Essays 1957; (p. 112-125) Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism 1967; (p. 55-66)
The Politics of the Voice : Ethnographic Fetishism and Australian Literary Studies Richard J. Martin , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 2 2013; 'The politics of representing Aboriginality often focuses on questions of authorship and appropriation. Much of this criticism rests on the simplistic assumption that texts created by collaboration and even uneven collaboration are not in some respects voiced by their subject or subjects. This paper discusses two popular texts about Aboriginal ceremonial songs or ‘songlines’ in order to challenge this assumption, reading Bill Harney with A. P. Elkin’s Songs of the Songmen: Aboriginal Myths Retold (1949), and John Bradley with Yanyuwa Families’ Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria (2010) as Aboriginal texts. These texts are particularly interesting insofar as they focus attention on the relationship between voice and text, as well as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, being the products of collaboration by the anthropologists Elkin and Bradley with, on the one hand, a non-Aboriginal ‘Protector’ and popular writer (Harney), and, on the other, the subjects of the ethnography themselves (that is Yanyuwa Families). As I argue, the shifting ways in which the songlines of northern Australia are voiced in Songs of the Songmen and Singing Saltwater Country provides insights into the politics of representing Aboriginality in Australia, and the forces that have historically affected it. The close analysis of these texts focuses attention on the role of ethnographic fetishism for the exotic and authentic within the changing context of cultural production in Australia.' (Author's abstract)
Australian Literature’s Legacies of Cultural Appropriation Michael R. Griffiths , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 October 2018;

'Non-Indigenous Australian writers face a dilemma. On the one hand, they can risk writing about Aboriginal people and culture and getting it wrong. On the other, they can avoid writing about Aboriginal culture and characters, but by doing so, erase Aboriginality from the story they tell.' (Introduction)
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