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"American Australian performer Joe Dolce’s 1980 one-hit wonder
Shaddap You
Face was recently inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s
Sounds
of Australia collection, which also named it Australia’s best novelty song.
For its fans, the song presciently predated the rise of Australian “wog humour”
in the late 1980s – comedy by and about the experiences of migrants and their
families in Australia.
For its critics, it was an example of the ethnic buffoon: a racialised
stereotype whose difference is a source of humour – to be laughed at rather
than laughed with.
How can we best understand this song, nearly 50 years on?"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
