Blogs about: Larrikins
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The Territories of Youth
I will be adding a fair few titles to my bibliography on larrikinism shortly. This is largely because I have been working my way through a fabulous PhD thesis by Simon Sleight from Monash University, … more →
The Vapour Trail
it's too late/early for this.
turnonmybrighteyes wrote 3 weeks ago: Craaaaaaaaaaaap. 6:03 am. Haven’t been to bed. No, scratch that. Been to bed, couldn’t s … more →
An 1880 art-and-obscenity trial: Ingres comes to Pitt St, Sydney
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 6 months ago: Hopefully, the Bill Henson imbroglio of 2008 is behind us in Australia now (for those who missed it: … more →
The Territories of Youth
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 6 months ago: I will be adding a fair few titles to my bibliography on larrikinism shortly. This is largely becaus … more →
Larrikins and blackface minstrelsy#2
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 7 months ago: My article on larrikins and blackface minstrelsy has finally appeared in the Journal of Social Histo … more →
In search of the larrikin girl
Melissa Bellanta wrote 7 months ago: Well, I’ve been very slow indeed since I got back from the whistle-stop conference visit to th … more →
A Larrikin Bibliography
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 10 months ago: I’ve noticed that quite a lot of people have visited my earlier patchy posts on Australian lar … more →
Have Gravity Will Threaten (new bio entry; Oct. 08) : Jen Anderson
claydjubal wrote 1 year ago: Born into a musical family and raised in Armidale, Jen Anderson’s father was a professional ja … more →
Richmond larrikins, early 20thC
Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: After far too long, I have returned to Janet McCalman’s Struggletown (1984), a really wonderfu … more →
Brisbane larrikins
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: According to the travel-writer Gilbert Parker in the early 1880s, Brisbane had no larrikins. There w … more →
The Georgia Minstrels in Queensland, 1878
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: Last Friday I was looking at Queensland’s reception of the Georgia Minstrels, an African-Ameri … more →
The coster and the larrikin
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: Last post I wrote about the larrikin Bill in C J Dennis’ The Sentimental Bloke (1915). Even th … more →
The Sentimental Bloke
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: When my sister was still in high school a few years ago, I went to see her in a musical based on C J … more →
I Love Australia!
Kate wrote 1 year ago: It was Australia Day yesterday. We had a celebration with all of my family. We have a public … more →
Sleepless in Smith-street
Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: You hear plenty about how chronically underslept the kids are these days, compared to some unspecifi … more →
The Larrikin's Hop & blackface minstrelsy
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: Well, my article on larrikins’ use of popular theatre to fashion their identity on colon … more →
Larrikin theatricalities
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: So recently I finished a piece about larrikin culture, and its theatricality, in late-19thC Australi … more →
