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Archie Roach: Music as a healer
Title:
Archie Roach: Music as a healer
Year
2019
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Archie Roach talks about music as being part of his healing. Archie is a member of the Stolen Generations and was forcibly separated from his family when he was just two years old.
In his autobiography Tell Me Why (2019), Archie says 'I've wrestled most of my life with addictions, but music has always been my saving grace. It's where I go to heal.'
Patrick Dodson echoes Archie's words in an interview from Liyarn Ngarn (2007), where he talks about Archie's ability to articulate pain as only an artist can.
This clip is taken from an exclusive interview with the NFSA in 2019.
Notes by Beth Taylor
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.