PRIMARY SOURCES:

Published memoirs and autobiographies. The recollections of respectable national icons about their misspent youth has shaped how we remember bohemians.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

Key secondary sources on Bohemian generations

FEATURED LITERATURE & MAGAZINES

ARTICLES:

• Themes behind Bohemian Rhapsody
  The main themes raised in Bohemian Rhapsody are discussed in terms of the four sections of the documentary.

• Romancing the City
  Australia's Bohemian Tradition.Research article by Tony Moore on the bohemian tradition in Australia.

 

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REFERENCE BOOKS

Key secondary sources on Bohemian generations:

Coombs, Anne:
Sex and Anarchy, The Life and death of the Sydney Push, 1997

Docker, John:
Australian Cultural Elites , Intellectual Elites in Sydney and Melbourne, 1974

Haese, Richard:
Rebels and Precursors : The Revolutionary Years of Australian art, 1981

Heyward, Michael:
The Ern Malley Affair, 1993

Kirkpatrick, Peter:
The Sea Coast of Bohemia, Literary Life in Sydney's Roaring Twenties, 1992

John Docker: Postmodernism and Popular Culture

McKenzie Wark: Virtual Geography

McKenzie Wark: The Virtual Republic

Catharine Lumby: Bad Girls, the Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s

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PRIMARY SOURCES :

Published memoirs and autobiographies. The recollections of respectable national icons about their misspent youth has shaped how we remember bohemians.

Norman Lindsay:
Bohemian's of The Bulletin and My Mask

Jack Lindsay: Life Rarely Tells

George Finey: Mangle Wheel

Alister Kershaw:
Heydays Memories and Glimpses of Melbourne's Bohemia 1937-47

Dulcie Deamer: The Golden Decade

Frank Moorhouse: Days of Wine and Rage

Barry Humphries: More Please

Bob Ellis: Letters to the Future

Clive James: Unreliable Memoirs

Craig McGregor:
People, Politics and Pop, Australians in the Sixties

Richard Neville: Hippy, hippy shake

John Clare: Bodgie Dada and the Cult of Cool

Billy Thorpe:
Sex and Things and Rock 'N' Roll, Kings Cross 1963-64

Clinton Walker:
Stranded, The Secret History of Australian Independent Music, 1977-1991

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FEATURED LITERATURE :

Kenneth Slessor Poems:
Five Bells, The Green Rolls Royce

Ern Malley: Durer; Innsbruck, 1495

Justine Ettler: The River Ophelia

Edward Berridge: Speed from Lives of the Saints

FEATURED MAGAZINES :

Angry Penguins (ceased publication 1940s)

Eddie

Bizzarism

Arena Magazine

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