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The present annual volume, the largest by the Australian Folklore Association, Inc. so far, is in some part built on both themes treated in earlier issues and on the steadily widening number of contributing scholars and subscribers, as well as on the support readily available from many comparable bodies and their serial publications. It features a most significant article on Australia's bush songs, from Hugh M. Anderson, now a septenarian, who has been influential in the collection and publication of ballads and colonial music for more than forty years. As the 1994 volume honoured Russel Ward in his 80th year and before his death, so No. 11 (1996) celebrated the achievements of Dal Stivens (b. 1911) who, very sadly, died on 15 June 1997. He was memorably praised by Barbara Jeffries for 'The Age' in her obituary entitled 'Folklorist who loved the land' (30 July, 1997). |
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