New Zealand Ballads
HE simple form of most ballads makes them generally easy to remember and recite, one reason why ballads are the verse-form most popular with the more vocal of men who lived, and those who still live, on the frontiers and the outback, Many a seaman, swagger or moonshiner has recited the ballads of Kipling or Robert W. Service, and these ballads found many backwoods equivalents in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand ballads by Will Lawson, David Ross and David McKee Wright were broadcast recently in the first of two ballad programmes selected and introduced by A. E. Currie. In the second of these programmes, to be heard at 7.15 p.m., Thursday, March 14, from 2YC, the authors drawn upon are Dora Wilcox, William Satchell, Ernest Eyre, Francis Sinclair, James K. Baxter and Jessie McKay. The subjects of the ballads range from The Ballad of Stuttering Jim-lIllustrat-ing the Survival of the Fittest, written by SatcheH uncer the pseudonym of Samuel Cliall White, to With Franky Drake-In the Year of Grace Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-four, by Francis Sinclair, The inclusion among the selection of James K. Baxter’s The Debt is an acknowledgment that the ballad is still considered fruitful by contemporary New Zealand poets. New Zealand Ballads will be heard later from other National stations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 14
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217New Zealand Ballads New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 14
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