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SECOND HAND BOOK – EX LIBRARY
In Ratbags and Rabblerousers, larrikin and folksong collector Warren Fahey celebrates Australia’s legacy of protest songs, lampoons, anthems and anecdotes from a hundred years of conflict between government, people, capital and labour.
From the father of Federation, Henry Parkes, and fat ‘Georgie Porgie’ Reid, to Depression hero big Jack Lang, ‘Pig Iron’ Bob Menzies, B.A. Santamaria, Arthur (‘two wongs don’t make a white’) Calwell, Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Pauline Hanson, Alan Bond and Christopher Skase, Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Howard… the great, the hideous and the eccentric are immortalised in rousing verse.
Here are tales of union warfare and political splits, strikes and scabs, judges, swindlers and crims, anti-war marches and conservation rallies, swaggies and rural struggle.
Warren Fahey explores the history of each song, recalling the long struggles for power and survival that make up our history. Ratbags and Rabblerousers features a foreword by songwriter Eric Bogle.
Specifications:
Condition: Good. Ex-library – front cover, back cover, and spine have library stickers, inside covers have library stamps, sealed in plastic.
Publisher: Currency Press
Year: 2000
Format: Paperback
Pages:389
ISBN: 9780868196343
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