bush balladry

English

Alternative forms

• bush-balladry

Etymology

bush ballad +‎ -ry

Noun

bush balladry (uncountable)

1. bush ballads, collectively.
   • 1957, Frederick Thomas Bennett Macartney, A Historical Outline of Australian Literature, page 17:

     Lawson, embittered by personal hardship, concentrated on the harsher aspects of the bush, and the democratic feeling evident in much of the bush balladry became in his verse an emphasis on social injustice which, however warranted, was not on the whole a characteristic of life outback.

   • 1971, Tom Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature, page 128:

     Side by side with the romantic strain, however, has run a notable variety of realistic poetry, expressing itself in three distinct forms: the bush balladry, both folk and literary; humour and satire; and modern intellectualist realism.

   • 2016, Diane Pecknold, Kristine M. McCusker, Country Boys and Redneck Women:

     Country music first arrived in Central Australia in the late 1920s when travelling nonindigenous showmen introduced American hillbilly and cowboy song music and Australian bush balladry.

See also

• outbackery