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“Silence no longer serves us.” The Score’s Samira Farah invites Ziggy Ramo to share his thoughts on the current state of the world. Following the release of his album Black Thoughts last year and his participation in Support Act’s “Tune Ups” series, Ziggy has been busy sharing his own lived experience of being Black in Australia and raising awareness for mental health and self-care.  Through his music and his charity work, Ziggy wishes to highlight Australia’s treatment of Indigenous lives, to show that things are not getting better and trauma still abounds.  But through embr...

(1916) served an explicit role as propaganda and recruitment tools, often glorifying the sacrifice, mateship and heroism of the young men who enlisted. Some, like the Boer war-era Sons of Australia , predate the commonwealth, with a call to patriotism that came firmly couched in the language of empire: (“Sons of Australia / Are your pulses thrilling? / Thrilling at the chance to thrash / Your empire’s foes”) . But not all wartime songwriters viewed Australia’s role in a contest of European imperial powers so sunnily. Mark Erickson and P. Clay-Bealer’s Only One of the Toys (1914) spe...