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Orchestrating The Waterfront Dispute: Music And Discourse In Bastard Boys, Rebecca Coyle
Orchestrating The Waterfront Dispute: Music And Discourse In Bastard Boys, Rebecca Coyle
Dr Rebecca Coyle
Bastard Boys is a historically-inspired mini-series broadcast on ABC TV in May 2007. It dramatizes a set of events that are commonly described as the Waterfront dispute, an industrial showdown between unions, the then-conservative Coalition government and corporate owners that occurred on the Australian docks in April 1998. The screenplay for Bastard Boys by Sue Smith and direction by Ray Quint interpret the dispute through a thematic framework of war. This approach is musically supported by Jan Preston’s score and the featured use of a rendition – by ex-Noiseworks singer Jon Stevens – of Edwin Starr’s 1970 hit song War. …