| 词条 | Glen Tomasetti |
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| name = Glen Tomasetti | image = | image_size = 180px | caption = | birth_date = 1929 | birth_place = Melbourne | death_date = 2003 | death_place = Melbourne | occupation = Folk musician }}Glenys Ann Tomasetti (1929–2003), known as Glen Tomasetti, was an Australian singer-songwriter, author and political activist. During the 1960s she appeared weekly on commercial television, performing satirical political songs. She became a household name in 1967 after refusing to pay a portion of her taxes in protest against Australia's involvement in the war in Vietnam. Although best known for her folk music and political activism, she was also an esteemed novelist and poet. BiographyEarly lifeGlen Tomasetti was born in Melbourne on 21 May 1929. Musical careerTomasetti began performing as a singer-songwriter and guitarist in the late 1950s. In the early 1960s she organised folk music concerts at the Emerald Hill Theatre in South Melbourne, a centre of the 1960s Melbourne folk scene.[1] Later in the 1960s she appeared weekly on Channel Seven TV, performing a topical political song after the general news broadcast.[2] Anti-war activism and 1967 court caseAustralia entered the war in Vietnam in 1962 in support of the USA, and in 1965 began sending conscripted servicemen to Vietnam.[3] Tomasetti became involved in the Save Our Sons organisation, a group of women opposed to military conscription, and in December 1965 she helped to organise the "Songs of Peace and Love" protest concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, described as "the first major response of the folk scene" to Australia's military involvement in Vietnam.[4]In 1967 Tomasetti was prosecuted after refusing to pay one sixth of her taxes on the grounds that one sixth of the federal budget was funding Australia's military presence in Vietnam. In court she argued that Australia's participation in the Vietnam War violated its international legal obligations as a member of the United Nations.[5] Public figures such as Joan Baez had made similar protests in the USA, but Tomasetti's prosecution was "believed to be the first case of its kind in Australia", according to a contemporary news report.[5] Tomasetti was eventually ordered to pay the unpaid taxes.[6] Feminist activismMany of Tomasetti's songs dealt with feminism and the situation of Australian women. Perhaps the best known is "Don't be too polite, girls", a call for equal pay and a feminist call to arms. Sung to the tune of a classic 19th century Australian shearing ballad ("All among the wool, boys"), it was inspired by the first ruling on equal pay in Australia, a 1969 Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration ruling that granted equal pay to only 18% of Australian women.[7] The song was still being sung by the Melbourne Trade Union Choir at the time of Tomasetti's death in 2003.[2] WritingIn 1967 Tomaestti organised the first poetry readings at La Mama Theatre in Carlton, Melbourne, a program that continues today.[8] She published her first novel, Thoroughly Decent People, in 1976. It was the first book published by the notable independent Australian publishing house McPhee Gribble. The poet and literary scholar Chris Wallace-Crabb described it as "one of the break-through novels in portraying ordinary suburban life without a supercilious sneer".[2] She later published poems and another novel, Man of Letters. Marriage and childrenGlen Tomasetti had three children.[2] Published worksThoroughly Decent People: An Australian Folktale[9] (1976) {{ISBN|9780869140017}} Man of Letters: A Romance (1981)[10] {{ISBN|0869140167}} References/Notes and references1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://folkstream.com/reviews/glen/|title=Australian Folk Songs: Glen Tomassetti|website=folkstream.com|access-date=24 February 2018}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/30/1056825338016.html|title=Singer-writer Tomasetti dies, aged 74|website=The Age|access-date=24 February 2018}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/event/vietnam|title=Vietnam War 1962–75 {{!}} The Australian War Memorial|website=www.awm.gov.au|access-date=24 February 2018}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.warrenfahey.com.au/the-great-folk-revival5/|title=THE GREAT FOLK REVIVAL5 {{!}} Warren Fahey|website=www.warrenfahey.com.au|access-date=24 February 2018}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237359734|title=VIETNAM: PROTEST AND TRAGEDY|date=29 November 1967|newspaper=The Express Tribune|accessdate=24 February 2018|issue=1537|location=New South Wales, Australia|page=4|via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107035022|title=Singer's tax protest rejected|date=2 December 1967|newspaper=The Canberra Times|accessdate=24 February 2018|issue=11,861|location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia|volume=42,|page=8|via=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833031|title=Making women count : a history of the Women's Electoral Lobby|first=Marian|last=Sawer|date=2008|publisher=UNSW Press|others=Radford, Gail.|year=|isbn=9780868409436|location=Sydney|pages=195|oclc=647833031}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://lamama.com.au/2017-autumn-program/la-mama-poetica|title=LA MAMA POETICA Autumn 2017 {{!}} La Mama Theatre|website=lamama.com.au|access-date=24 February 2018}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780869140017/decent-people-folktale-Glen-Tomasetti-0869140019/plp|title=9780869140017: Thoroughly decent people : a folktale – AbeBooks – Glen Tomasetti: 0869140019|website=abebooks.co.uk|access-date=24 February 2018}} 10. ^{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45760245|title=Man of letters : a romance|last=Tomasetti|first=Glen|date=1981|publisher=Melbourne : McPhee Gribble|isbn=0869140167|language=English}} External links
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