National Library Oral History holdings on John Dengate (1938-2013)

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John at the launch of his third book at the Bush Music Club, 2012 (photo ©Chris Woodland)

The National Library's Oral History and Folklore Collection

The Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection dates back to the 1950’s and includes a rich and diverse collection of interviews and recordings with Australians from all walks of life.

Our Oral History and Folklore collection records the voices that describe our cultural, intellectual and social life.  The collection consists of around 45,000 hours of recordings, the earlier ones dating back to the 1950s when the tape recorder became available.  More than 1000 hours of interviews, music and accents are added to the collection each year. Increasingly the collection is available online or may be requested from the catalogue. You can listen to:

• Folklore recordings - popular culture, traditional songs, dances, music, stories and more
• Interviews with distinguished Australians - scientists, writers, artists, politicians and sports people
• Interviews with people who have lived through significant social trends and conditions - unemployment, the impact of child removals from families,  the Depression, and migration to Australia
• Environmental sound - the historical sound of the built and natural environment.

Some interviews have transcripts or summaries and our online audio delivery system helps you search the content of our collection, which can be searched through Trove.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/41205382
Folkloric recording, Songs of Treason workshop presented by John Dengate and friends on the 30th of March, 1975 at the 9th National Folk Festival, University of Sydney, N.S.W.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/166074235 - Recorded by Chris Sullivan, 1983
Charlie Batchelor, Garry Tooth, John Dengate and Phyl Lobl recorded at the Bush Music Club Annual Festival, Marrickville

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22741745 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs and recites poems

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19354437 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs and recites poems with John Meredith for the John Meredith folklore collection on 27 February 1985

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22306523 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs for the John Meredith folklore collection 

 http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22306503 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs and talks with John Meredith 

 http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22741794 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs and recites poems 

 http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22306518 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22306503 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1985
John Dengate sings topical songs and talks with John Meredith 

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/51611915 - Recorded by Declan Affley, 1985-86
John Dengate interviewed for an ABC Radio National program

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/27997747 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1988
John Dengate sings political satires for the John Meredith folklore collection 

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/44427737 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1990
John Dengate sings accompanying himself on guitar and recites topical satire  

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43128118 - Recorded by John Meredith, 1990
John Dengate sings (accompanying himself on guitar), recites topical satire, and talks about his life.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/33759647 - Recorded by Peter Parkhill, 1998
Interview with John Dengate, singer, songwriter and poet

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/40586470 - Recorded by Kevin Bradley, 2000
Folkloric recording of John Dengate : singer, guitarist and poet

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/8864586 Recorded by Warren Fahey, 2005
John Dengate interviewed by Warren Fahey

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22748194 - Recorded by Alan Musgrove, 2006
John Dengate interviewed by Alan Musgrove

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/41179547 - Recorded by Chris Woodland, 2008
John Dengate interviewed by Chris Woodland

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/180448945 - Recorded by Chris Woodland, 2012
John Dengate recites poetry and sings songs for Chris Woodland in the Chris Woodland folklore collection 

 Portrait of John by Kate Scott

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