Yarra River - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

The Yarra is considered and important part of Melbourne's culture and a symbol of the city, and as a result, it has been the source of artistic and cultural expression.

  • The Yarra has been captured in many famous paintings including some by the Heidelberg School.
  • The annual Moomba festival celebrates the Yarra River's increasing cultural significance to Melbourne.
  • The river has featured in songs by the Whirling Furphies, titled "My Brown Yarra", and the Coodabeen Champions, titled "By the Banks of the Yarra".
  • A poem entitled "Yara Yara" was written by Greek poet Nikos Kavvadias in 1951.
  • A song entitled The Yarra Song was written by Billy Bragg and included on the Australian edition of his 2002 album, England, Half English.

Read more about this topic:  Yarra River

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    “Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)