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Harlem on the Yarra single work   poetry   "Let's go!"
  • Author:agent Den http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dennis-c-j-clarence-james
Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Harlem on the Yarra
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Herald no. 17616 30 October 1933 Z1193832 1933 newspaper issue 1933 pg. 6
    Note: Epigraph: "A Herald correspondent has suggested that, in order to ease the strain on the Centenary Entertainment Committee, we should import from America a negro band of "hot rhythm Harlemaniacs" (second rate, for the sake of cheapness), which, he declares would act as a "very potent draw."

    One may be forgiven for objecting that, while a certain air of novelty might be lent to a purely Australian Centenary by employing American negroes to discourse Afric jungle melodies, nevertheless—"
Subjects:
  • Yarra River, Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria,
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