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Book Cover: Verandah Music: Roots of Australian Tradition Including 2 Cd's
Verandah Music: Roots of Australian Tradition Including 2 Cd's
By Graham Seal
Verandah Music is a unique anthology of writing on traditional Australian music which provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between the music and the people that produced and perpetuated it. Through interviews, photographs and personal stories, Verandah Music illuminates the traditions, working lives and family connections of some of Australia's most colourful characters and the music...
Verandah Music is a unique anthology of writing on traditional Australian music which provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between the music and the people that produced and perpetuated...
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Published: 05/11/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920731977
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
By Steve Roud & Julia Bishop

'The trees they grow so high and the leaves they grow so green.
The day is past and gone, my love, that you and I have seen'

One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny.They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything...


'The trees they grow so high and the leaves they grow so green.
The day is past and gone, my love, that you and I have seen'

One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical...


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Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780141194615
RRP: $45.00

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  • (-) The arts
    • (-) Music
      • (-) Music: styles & genres
        • (-) Folk & traditional music

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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