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Music, Memory and Kriv Stenders’
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
Using a mosaic of interviews, re-enactments,
historical footage and other archival material,
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which spanned 1977 to 1989 and then 2000 to 2006. Today,
however, the group is considered one of the most inventive and
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trait of its subjects, telling the stories not only of their songs, but
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and music recordings. He structures these both chronologically,
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