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Play your way to happiness

Jan 10, 202330 min
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It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of coastal cities and crowding halls in country towns - to play Hawaiian steel guitar.  Historian Robyn Annear discovers what drove thousands of Australians to learn this unlikely instrument?

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