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Conflict of Cultures

by Margaret Bradford, Gill Rees

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    13 songs depicting stories of Australian Aboriginal people I wrote and recorded 15 years
    ago; comes in CD or audio cassette.
    The recording went into many tertiary institutions around Australia with the approval of the Aboriginal Education Board. Proceeds of the sales went to support Aboriginal Education. a

    To quote the words of Australian aborigine Robert Kelly
    "Our ancestors, when, travelling in the land, scattered a train of words and music along the line of the footprints. These are the dreaming tracks. Our land lives because of them. Our people and the land are one in a single expressionist song, and the people give the Land a voice to sing. Land is kinship family and clan. It is the basis of life, identity and spirituality. When we lose a sacred place we lose our past, our ancestry, our memory in a very real almost final sense...... we lose ourselves.
    These words express the feelings I have tried to convey in the songs I have written on this recording
    Margaret Bradford

    For over 60,000 years, Australian Aborigines have developed a carefully coordinated life style, which involves all aspects of culture, song, art and dance as a necessary part of their existence
    in contrast came the thrusting, restless, displaced people from the other side of the earth, with the materialistic ideas of what life should be like.
    Australia was claimed as Terra Nullius, "land belonging to no one."
    The newcomers did not recognise the aboriginal people as landholders. Instead, the land that they had respected and revered as being an essential element in their existence was taken from them piece by piece.

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1.
Mark Quayle
2.
Two Hundred Years
3.
Aboriginal Mother's Lament
4.
Wandering Girl
5.
Mum Shirl
6.
Plains of Maralinga by Alistair huellet
7.
Poor fellow my Country.. words Ted Egan- Music Margaret Bradford
8.
Uluru by John Warner
9.
Thanacoupie by Margaret Bradford
10.
Song of the Aboriginal Boy June Epstein & Margaret Bradford
11.
Ray Kelly's Story
12.
Listen Now John Harding and Margaret Bradford
13.
Black Mist Robin Mann

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Stories in song of 13 First nations people

Conflict of Cultures

1.
Mark Quayle’s story
Mark Quayle was a young enthusiastic First Nations 23 year old who desperately reached out for an identity that the white society could not provide. As well as having a good grounding in Aboriginal culture, Mark went to a white school and worked as a trained National Parks ranger in the MutawintjiNational Park.
He became homesick, lost his job, fell into a cycle of heavy bingeing, frustrating defeats, brawls and finally arrested. The average arrest rate for Indigenous Australians was 45 times the average. His many attempts to withdraw from drink finally led to a bout of the “horrors” and a trip to hospital.
Here a nurse panicked when Mark kept demanding drink. She called the police who locked him up for the night without the necessary medication for a man who needed some mental and emotional help. Police later claimed that Mark agreed to be locked up. No relatives were called though many were available. He died that night in prison. Watching him being interviewed before his death, his sheer frustration and lost identity was only too apparent.

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releases July 25, 2023

Voices: Margaret Bradford, Gill Rees, Sonia Bennet,
Gill Rees..lead guitar, synthesiser, hammered dulcimer, recorder
Sonia Bennet: guitar on songs 5,8 & 9 & 13
Lilo Blyton: violin
James Babin: didgeridoo
Sonya Bradford; base guitar.

Technicians: Recorded, engineered and mixed by Andrew Knight. at Freefall Music 1989

Production: Gill Rees & Margaret Bradford

cover photo: Nosepeg Tjupurrula b. c.1915
Also known as Nosepeg Tjunkata Tjupurrula, Jungkata Nosepeg Tjupurrula
Artist (Painter)
Nosepeg began painting at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya. A consummate politician and a senior elder in his community he was a driving force in the outstation movement from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Margaret Bradford Sydney, Australia

Margaret's CD, inspirational women, is fittingly called HOYA- after the perennial green vine which she inherited from her grandmother. Like the Hoya plant, women’s stories grow and survive, we endure, and our struggles and responses intertwine and recur in each generation. Excellent musicians, on guitar, fiddle, mandolin & piano create a delightful river of sound under Margaret's songs ... more

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