Summary
Small yellow cardboard membership card for the Cape Musician's Association, showing subscription paid for January 1967. Lindsay Motherwell was a drummer in various jazz bands, and travelled in Africa playing during the 1950s-1960s.
Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.
Physical Description
Yellow cardboard membership card, shows payment for January on the inside.
Significance
Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Issued To
Mr Lindsay S. Motherwell, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 May 1967
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Inscriptions
Sections filled out with pen: Name: Mr L.S. Motherwell Date of Admission: 11.5.67 Signed: Frank Stratford, Secretary Paid: 1967 Jan. R2.00
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions - Closed
119 mm (Length), 76 mm (Width)
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Overall Dimensions - Open
119 (Length), 152 (Width)
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Keywords
South African Immigration, Travel, Musicians, Jazz Bands, Working Life, Apartheid, Racism, Immigration Policies, Workers Rights