I love you Jimmie Barker : a documentary from the tape archive of Jimmie Barker

Resource Information

The work I love you Jimmie Barker : a documentary from the tape archive of Jimmie Barker represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

I love you Jimmie Barker : a documentary from the tape archive of Jimmie Barker

Title remainder

a documentary from the tape archive of Jimmie Barker

Statement of responsibility

Jimmie Barker

Creator

• Barker, Jimmie, 1900-1972

Contributor

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National
• Thomas, Martin, 1964-

Author

• Barker, Jimmie, 1900-1972

Broadcaster

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National

Producer

• Thomas, Martin, 1964-

Publisher

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National

Subject

• Barker, Jimmie, 1900-1972
• Employment - Conditions
• Gender relations - Courtship
• History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
• History - Oral history
• Muruwari (Australian people) -- Biography
• Occupations - Agricultural and horticultural workers
• Race relations
• Radio programs
• Sound recordings
• Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Biography
• Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales | Brewarrina -- History

Genre

• Radio programs
• Sound recordings
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Based on Jimmie Barker's recordings, a love story between Jimmie Barker and a non-Indigenous domestic servant named Jean is recounted through Jimmie Barker's own recordings and interviews with Jimmie's daughter, Mary Harris and her husband Barry. A description of Jimmie's treatment as a farm worker from 1915-1919; the death of Jean in the 1919 influenza epidemic; Jimmie's return to the Brewarrina Mission, where he worked as a handyman and undertaker for over twenty years

Cataloging source

AIAS

Credits note

Produced by Martin Thomas from recordings made by Jimmie Barker

Date time place

Broadcast 06 October 2001 on ABC Radio National, Radio Eye

Information about documentation

Scanned: supplementary

PerformerNote

Jimmie Barker, Mary Harris, Barry Harris