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Australian folklore refers to the folklore and urban legends that have evolved in Australia from Aboriginal Australian myths to colonial and contemporary folklore including people, places and events, that have played part in shaping the culture, image and traditions that are seen in contemporary Old Australia.
Folklore:
1. The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.
2. The comparative study of folk knowledge and culture.
3. A body of widely accepted but usually specious notions about a place, a group, or an institution.[1]
Intangible culture:
Traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts.[2]
Traditional cultural expressions (TCEs or TECs), also called 'expressions of folklore':
may include music, dance, art, designs, names, signs and symbols, performances, ceremonies, architectural forms, handicrafts and narratives, or many other artistic or cultural expressions.[3]
Australian folklore is preserved as part of The Australian Register Unesco Memory of the World Program [4] and the Oral History and Folklore collection of the National Library of Australia.[5]
Australian Children’s Folklore Collection in Museum Victoria, coordinated by Dr June Factor and Dr Gwenda Davey.[6][7]
John Meredith Folklore Collection 1953-1994, held in the National Library of Australia.[8]
Rob and Olya Willis Folklore collection. [9]
O'Connor Collection.[10]
Scott Collection. [11]
Australian Traditional Music Archive.[12]
Australian Folk Songs [13]
Various books on folk dancing in Australia [14] [15]
Warren Fahey Collection.[16]
1905 Old Bush Songs by Banjo Paterson
1952 Bush Music Club (Sydney)
1953 Victorian Folk Lore Society
1958 The Australian Legend by Russel Ward
1963-1975 Australian Tradition magazine edited by Wendy Lowenstein
1964 Folklore Council of Australia
1964 Who Wrote the Ballads? by John Manifold
1967 Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them by John Meredith
1969 Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen by Patsy Adam-Smith
1974-1996 Australian Folk Trust
1974 Take Your Partners by Shirley Andrews
1979 Australian Folklore Society
1987 A Dictionary of Australian Folklore: Lore, Legends, Myths and Traditions by Bill Wannan
1987 Folklife: Our Living Heritage report proposed the establishment of a National Folklife Centre. The Centre would ‘provide national focus for action to record, safeguard and promote awareness of Australia’s heritage of folklife’. None of the 51 recommendations were implemented.[19]
1987-2018 Australian Folklore journal
1993 The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore edited by Graham Seal and Gwenda Bede Davey.
2002 Australian Folklore Network established by Professor Graham Seal
Universities teaching intangible culture –
The Australian Folklore Network holds an annual conference, the day before the National Folk Festival in Canberra each Easter.
The National Library of Australia sponsors an annual National Folk Fellowship.[22]
Main article: Australian Aboriginal mythology |