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Kavisha Mazzella performs a song about an arranged marriage to a man in a 'faraway country’ – Australia. The song’s story is acted out music-video style in black and white.
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Kavisha Mazzella performs a song about an arranged marriage to a man in a 'faraway country’ – Australia. The song’s story is acted out music-video style in black and white.
This clip shows an aspect of the experience of Italian women who immigrated to Australia after the Second World War through arranged marriages to Italian immigrant men. The clip includes the song ‘Wedding sheets’, written and performed by Kavisha Mazzella, which is accompanied by images of Mazzella performing the song, archival photographs, and black-and-white footage that recreates an Italian bride’s journey by ship to Australia to meet her husband.
This clip shows an aspect of the experience of Italian women who immigrated to Australia after the Second World War through arranged marriages to Italian immigrant men. The clip includes the song Wedding Sheets, written and performed by Kavisha Mazzella, which is accompanied by images of Mazzella performing the song, archival photographs, and black-and-white footage that recreates an Italian bride’s journey by ship to Australia to meet her husband.
Kavisha Mazzella (sings) Then the long journey to a faraway country, Australia. I’d never seen the sea before. So big and so blue. I must marry a man whose photograph I’m holding in my hand. I’m scared, I’m nervous, to give my body to the hands of a stranger. He’s the friend of my brother, who’s already waiting. He went before us, to work. And save some money. Oh, I’m so hungry, the children in Napoli are hungry. Wistful eyes. I see their eyes say goodbye. I’m leaving today. (sings in Italian) We won’t be hungry, we won’t be poor. (sings in Italian) My dreams are in the sheets. My sheets are in my suitcase. My suitcase in my hand. As I step off the land onto the boat . (sings in Italian) La-la-la-la-lie. Lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie. La-lie-lie-lie.
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