{"id":42909,"date":"2015-09-26T22:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42909"},"modified":"2015-09-26T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T22:15:52","slug":"ronnie-tasmanian-songman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42909","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magabala.com\/ronnietasmanian-songman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magabala.com\" target=\"_blank\">Magabala Books<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2009<br \/>\n164 pages<br \/>\n240 x 165<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781921248108<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Gee<\/strong> and <strong>Ronnie Summers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magabala.com\/ronnietasmanian-songman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magabala.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/r\/o\/ronnielrg_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Barren_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Barren Island<\/a> and how the island\u2019s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titi_\/_Muttonbird_Islands\" target=\"_blank\">muttonbird islands<\/a>, a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kangaroo_court\" target=\"_blank\">kangaroo court<\/a>\u2019 prison term as a bewildered teenager, and then turning to alcohol after the death of his baby son. Born an \u2018Islander\u2019\u2014not Aboriginal, not white\u2014Ronnie Summers was without race. This story documents his struggle for a place in his own country and echoes that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aboriginal_Tasmanians\" target=\"_blank\">Tasmanian Aboriginal<\/a> community. Includes a CD featuring Cape Barren Island music\u2014a unique blend of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cajun_music\" target=\"_blank\">Cajun<\/a>, blues, country and folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman Magabala Books January 2009 164 pages 240 x 165 Paperback ISBN: 9781921248108 Helen Gee and Ronnie Summers Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on Cape Barren Island and how the island\u2019s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the muttonbird islands, a \u2018kangaroo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,11,8,17,4405],"tags":[986,21198,21197,21195,1392,21196,8358],"class_list":["post-42909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-cape-barren-island","tag-helen-gee","tag-magabala-books","tag-music","tag-ronnie-summers","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42910,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions\/42910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}