Author: VROLAND, F. ANNA.
Title: Music Has Roots.
Description: First Edition; Lge 4to; [ii], 88 but typed on single side only; printed wrappers; original red reinforcing tape on spine; small closed tear on front wrapper; small spot on front wrapper; edges lightly bumped' otherwise a very good copy. NP. ND. First page relates how songs gathered is and is dated 1951. Inscribed by author. Excellent early stolen generation and massacre document including setting up the Lake Tyers by the work of Mr. Bulmer and Big Joe and how the whites no longer killed them with guns but whiskey and how the half castes began to appear. Relates how at twelve she was taken with two other girls from Mooncullah Aboriginal Station in NSW by the police to be "educated" where the Aborigines Protection Board of New South Wales sends her out as a maid of all work on an outback station. 10 songs and their history and interpretations ranging from the "Old People" to mixing of cultures Maori and Negro. Songs of the journey, songs of Aboriginal interpretation of a two up game, their interpretation of Steam Boats, songs of the early days and more. Loose 4 page Lecture programme for National Museum Of Victoria dated 1958.

Keywords: massacre bancroft bay stolen generation aboriginal history victoria