Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids

A Brief List of Material Relating to Australian Folksongs

Compiled by: Archive of Folk Culture staff
Publication Date: April 20, 1970

Anderson, Hugh.
Australian Song Index. Ferntree Gully, Victoria: Rams Skull Press, Black Bull Chapbooks no. 7, 1957.

Colonial Ballads. Second edition, Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney: F. W. Cheshire, 1962.

Farewell to Old England: A Broadside History of Early Australia. Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1964.

Federation of Bush Music Groups.
The Queensland Centenary Pocket Songbook; 30 Traditional Bush Songs. Foreward by Robert Dalley-Scarlett. Sydney, Edwards & Shaw, 1960.

Lahey, John.
Australian Favorite Ballads: 61 Traditional Songs of Australia. New York: Oak Publications, 1965.

Meredith, John, and Hugh Anderson.
Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women Who Sang Them. Sydney, London: Ure Smith, 1967. 300 pp.

Long, Lionel, and Graham Jenkin.
Favorite Australian Bush Songs. Adelaide: Rigby Ltd., 1964.

Manifold, John Streeter.
Who Wrote the Ballads? Notes on Australian Folksong. Sydney: Australian Book Society, 1964.

Stewart, Dougland, and Nancy Keesing.
Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times. Sydney, London, Melbourne, and Wellington: Angus and Robertson, 1957.

Wannan, Bill, ed.
The Australian: Yarns, Ballads, Legends, Traditions of the Australian People. 3rd ed. London, Angus & Robertson, 1964.