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Record Id:
28442429 (Australian Library Collections)
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Author:
Justino, Joao.
Title:
Joao Justino interviewed by Peter Parkhill in the Peter Parkhill collection [sound recording].
Published:
1987.
Description:
2 digital audio tapes (ca. 120 min.)
Series:
Peter Parkhill collection.
Summary:
This recording features music. The instruments are guitar, flute, cavaquino (Portugese ukelele) and bobadok (a small hand drum)
Biography:
Joao Justino came to Australia as a refugee following the war in East Timor. He had been a student and guitarist in Timor and had also studied in Lisbon, Portugal. In Australia he formed a group which performs Timorese music, songs and dances. The dances are taught to children. The group is based in south-west Sydney but plays all over Australia.
Notes:
Recorded in Fairfield Town Hall, N.S.W. in 1987.
DCM record ; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection ; nla.oh-2525-0031.
Part of:
Peter Parkhill collection (AuCNL)269510
Subjects:
Justino, Joao. -- Interviews.
Musicians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews.
East Timorese -- Australia.
Folk music -- East Timor.
Dance for children -- East Timor.
Other Authors:
Parkhill, Peter. Interviewer
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(3549600) ORAL TRC 2525/31
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