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bush-balladry en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of bush balladry.
    • Although bush-balladry may be very Australian, it has many antecedents: partly Irish and Scottish songs, partly Rudyard Kipling. 1998, Barbara Williams, In Other Words: Interviews with Australian Poets, page 157:
    • It anticipated, in its emphasis on outdoor virility and the cult of the horse and its devil-may-care attitude, and to some extent even by its casually ironic meditation, the prolific bush-balladry of a decade or two later—a vogue which in its turn of course, increased the readers of Gordon. 1971, Australian Literature, page 16:
    • The Australian 'bush' or rural identity, bush-balladry, and the heroic traditions upon which they rest, speak to rhetorical propaganda of the nation-making through which colonial literature began. 2015, Allana Lindgren, Stephen Ross, The Modernist World: