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All titles in the ‘Bush ballad’ genre

3 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year

Jack Luscombe music – 1953

An oral history containing the first recorded collection of Australian folk song.

Waltzing Matilda music – 1926

This was the first recording of Australia’s national song.

Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket music – 1936

New Zealand-born Tex Morton created an awareness that country and western music could be an Australian form as much as it was an American form.