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Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates a wide variety of distinctive traditional music styles practised by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles both derivative of and fusion with European traditions as interpreted and performed by indigenous Australian artists. Music has formed an integral part of the social, cultural and ceremonial observances of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, down through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day. The traditional forms include many aspects of performance and musical instrumentation which are unique to particular regions or Indigenous Australian groups; there are equally elements of musical tradition which are common or widespread through much of the Australian continent, and even beyond. The culture of the Torres Strait Islanders is related to that of adjacent parts of New Guinea and so their music is also related. The earliest music of Australia was the folk music of the Australian Aborigines. ...
The trends of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. ...
Samples of Australian music can be found on the articles of the following artists: Pop music The Church - Under the Milky Way Kylie Minogue - many, including Locomotion (1987), Confide In Me (1994), Where The Wild Roses Grow (1995, with Nick Cave) and Slow (2003) The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac (1998) Rock...
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Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s, primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States of America. ...
Australia is home to several large immigrant communities, including the Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos and others. ...
Jazz is an American musical genre largely originated by African Americans but the style was rapidly and enthusiastically taken up by musicians all over the world, including Australia. ...
Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ...
Australian rock and pop musicians have produced a wide variety of music. ...
Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and still influencing contemporary Australian music today. ...
Australian indie rock is part of the overall flow of Australian rock history but has a distinct history somewhat separate from mainstream rock in Australia, largely from the end of the punk rock era onwards. ...
Australian musicians played and recorded some of the earliest punk rock. ...
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ...
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collecting society representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. ...
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). ...
The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. ...
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The J Award logo. ...
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM). ...
This article refers to an Australian award show. ...
Kent Music Report front cover 11 October 1976 The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by a music enthusiast, David Kent from the early 1970s through to 1998. ...
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ...
The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ...
The Rock Across Australia, or TRAA, is a compilation of weekly Christian charts according to the number of radio plays in Australia. ...
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as; musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. ...
This is a list of music festivals in Australia. ...
The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand. ...
Livid was an Australian alternative rock music festival, which was held annually from 1989 to 2003. ...
Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ...
The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria Australia since 1993. ...
The largest recorded congregation of aboriginal australians apart from yothu yindi concerts and the tamworth pcyc weekly pool competition. ...
WOMADelaide 2005 First held in 1992, WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival held in Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Womad series of music festivals. ...
Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ...
Rage is an all-night Australian music video program that is broadcast on ABC TV on Friday and Saturday nights. ...
Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ...
Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ...
Cyclic Defrost is Australias only specialist electronic music magazine. ...
A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nations government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ...
Advance Australia Fair is the official national anthem of Australia. ...
Adelaide is a city in South Australia. ...
Queensland Conservatorium of Music Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues. ...
Canberra is the capital city of Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. ...
Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
the Sydney Opera House can be seen on the far left Sydney is a city in Australia, and a major center center for music. ...
Perth is a city in Western Australia, known for having produced a number of very famous performers. ...
Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ...
For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
Australian Aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Australia. ...
For a non-technical overview of the subject, see Calculus. ...
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Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ...
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ...
Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia. ...
A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...
This List of Indigenous Australian group names contains names and collective designations which have been applied, either formerly or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians. ...
In addition to these indigenous traditions and musical heritage, ever since the 18th century European colonisation of Australia began indigenous Australian musicians and performers have adopted and interpreted many of the imported Western musical styles, often informed by and in combination with traditional instruments and sensibilities. Similarly, non-indigenous artists and performers have adapted, used and sampled indigenous Australian styles and instruments in their works. Contemporary musical styles such as rock and roll, country, hip hop, and reggae have all featured a variety of notable indigenous Australian performers. The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ...
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Traditional forms and instruments
Bunggul -
Main article: Bunggul Bunggul is a style of music that came into being around the Mann River and is known for its intense lyrics, which are often stories of epic journeys and continue, or repeat, unaccompanied after the music has stopped.
Clan songs and songlines -
A particular clan in Aboriginal culture may share songs, known as emeba (Groote Eylandt), fjatpangarri (Yirrkala), manikay (Arnhem Land) or other native terms. Songs are about clan or family history and are frequently updated to take into account popular films and music, controversies and social relationships. Songlines - the British based world music magazine featuring the greatest artists in the current music scene on the web at [Songlines http://www. ...
Groote Eylandt from space, November 1989 Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia and is the homeland of and is owned by, the Anindilyakwa people. ...
Yirrkala is a well-known indigenous community in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, at 12. ...
Arnhem Land is an area of 97,000 km² in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia. ...
Songlines ("Yiri" in the Walpiri language) relate to Dreamtime, with oral lore and storytelling manifested in an intricate series of song cycles that identified landmarks and other items and tracking (hunting) mechanisms for navigation. These songs often described how the features of the land were created and named during the Dreamtime. By singing the songs in the appropriate order, indigenous Australians could navigate vast distances often traveling through the deserts of Australia's interior. They relate the holder or the keeper of the song (or Dreamtime story) with an inherent obligation and reciprocity with the land. Representation of the Rainbow serpent, the Waugal The Dreamtime is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal mythology. ...
For the 2001 film, see Storytelling (film) Storytelling is the ancient art of conveying events in words, images, and sounds. ...
Tracking in hunting is the science and art of observing a place through animal footprints and other signs, including: tracks, beds, chews, scat, hair, etc. ...
Representation of the Rainbow serpent, the Waugal For other uses, see Dreamtime (disambiguation). ...
Representation of the Rainbow serpent, the Waugal For other uses, see Dreamtime (disambiguation). ...
Death Wail -
A mourning lament recorded in a number of locations in central and northern Australia and among the Torres Strait Islanders. The death wail is a keening mourning lament, generally performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe. ...
The Torres Strait Islander Flag. ...
Karma -
Main article: Karma (oral literature) Karma is a type of oral literature that tells a religious or historical story. Oral literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word. ...
Various Religious symbols, including (first row) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, (second row) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third row) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fourth row) Ayyavazhi, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual...
History studies the past in human terms. ...
Didgeridoo -
A didgeridoo is a type of musical instrument, in the woodwind family due it's akin to traditional flutes. It is traditionally made out of eucalyptus or bamboo. Aborigines used the didgeridoo to communicate over long distances, as well as to accompany songs, and the instrument is commonly considered the national instrument of Australian Aborigines. Traditionally it is an instrument played by males. It is one of the most difficult instruments to play. Specialists employ the rare skills of cyclic breathing and techniques for inducing multiple harmonic resonances possibly by vibration of the lips and vocal triggers. Famous players include Djalu Gurruwiwi, Mark Atkins and Joe Geia, as well as white virtuoso Charlie McMahon. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...
natural range Species About 700; see the List of Eucalyptus species Eucalyptus (From Greek, eu + καλÏπτω = True Cap) is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. ...
Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ...
Djalu Gurruwiwi (born at Milingimbi, Northern Territory, Australia, before World War II) is a senior member of the Galpu clan, of the Yolngu people. ...
Mark Atkins is an Australian Aboriginal musician known for his skill on the didgeridoo, a traditional instrument. ...
Joe Geia is a Murri Aboriginal artist from North Queensland. ...
Charlie McMahon playing didjeridu Charlie McMahon (born Horace Charles McMahon in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, Australia, June 19, 1951) is an Australian didgeridoo player. ...
Krill Krill -
Main article: Krill Krill The Krill Krill song cycle is a modern musical innovation from east Kimberley. A man named Rover Thomas claims to have discovered the ceremony in 1974 (see 1974 in music) after a woman to whom he was spiritually related was killed after a car accident near Warmun. Thomas claimed to have been visited by her spirit and received the ceremony from her. In addition to the music, Thomas and others, including Hector Jandany and Queenie McKenzie, developed a critically acclaimed style of painting in sync with the development of the ceremony. The Kimberley is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, consisting of the local government areas of Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek and Wyndham-East Kimberley. ...
Rover Thomass painting Cyclone Tracy (1991) Rover Thomas Joolama (c. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
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Hector Jandany (c. ...
Queenie McKenzie (Nakarra) (c. ...
For building painting, see painter and decorator. ...
Kun-borrk -
Main article: Kun-borrk Kun-borrk came into being around the Adelaide, Mann and Rose Rivers, distinguished by a didgeridoo introduction followed by the percussion and vocals, which often conclude words (in contrast to many other syllabic styles of Aboriginal singing). Adelaide River is the name of more than one place in Australia: Adelaide River, the river Adelaide River, the township This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Wangga -
Main article: Wangga Wangga came into being near the South Alligator River and is distinguished by an extremely high note to commence the song, accompanied by rhythmic percussion and followed by a sudden shift to a low tone. The Alligator Rivers is the name of a region in Arnhem Land containing three rivers the East, West and South Alligator River. ...
Contemporary trends -
Main articles: :Category:Indigenous Australian musicians and :Category:Indigenous Australian music groups A number of Indigenous Australians have achieved mainstream prominence, such as Jimmy Little (popular), Yothu Yindi (rock), Troy Cassar-Daley (country) and NoKTuRNL (rap metal), the Warumpi Band (alternative or world music) Aboriginal music has also had broad exposure through the world music movement and in particular WOMADelaide. Note: James Jimmy Doolittle bombed Tokyo in WW2. ...
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for child and mother. ...
Australian rock and pop musicians have produced a wide variety of music. ...
Troy Cassar-Daley is an Australian Aboriginal country musician from Grafton, New South Wales. ...
Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ...
NoKTuRNL are a four piece band formed in 1996 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia. ...
Rap metal is a musical genre that takes influence from both rap music and heavy metal music. ...
The Warumpi Band was an Australian band from the bush, coming from Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia. ...
World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ...
WOMADelaide 2005 First held in 1992, WOMADelaide is an annual world music and dance festival held in Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia as part of the Womad series of music festivals. ...
Torres Strait Islander musicians include Christine Anu (popular) and Seaman Dan. Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia. ...
Christine Anu (born 1970) is an Australian pop singer from Cairns, Queensland. ...
Seaman Dan is a Torres Strait Islander singer/songwriter whose first recording was released in 2000. ...
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal music continues the earlier traditions and also represents a fusion with contemporary mainstream styles of music, such as rock and country music. The Deadlys provide an illustration of this with rock, country, pop being found among the styles played. Common traditional instrumentation used are the didjeridu and clapsticks being used to give a different feel to the music. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. ...
For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ...
The didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a unique wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines of northern Australia. ...
A Clapstick is a single stick-shaped instrument, used normally in pairs - when it becomes known as clapsticks or clappers - to create a sharp and distinct percussive sound. ...
The movie Wrong Side of the Road and soundtrack (1981) gave broad exposure to the bands Us Mob and No Fixed Address and highlighted Indigenous disadvantage in urban Australia. Wrong Side of the Road is a low-budget feature film made in South Australia in 1980 (released 1981). ...
// In film formats, the sound track is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ...
No Fixed Address are an Australian Aboriginal reggae group formed in 1978. ...
In Policy debate, a disadvantage (abbreviated as DA, and sometimes referred to as a Disad) is an argument that a team brings up against a policy action that is being considered. ...
Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ...
See also 3KND (South East Indegenous Media Association Inc). ...
Aboriginal rock is a rather nebulous term for a style of music which mixes traditional rock music elements (guitar, drums, bass etc) with the instrumentation of Indigenous Australians (Didjeridu, clap-sticks etc). ...
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organization founded in 1980 by Freda Glynn, Phillip Batty and John Macumba in order to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia from its Alice Springs media centre. ...
The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. ...
Stompen Ground Festival in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned, designed and managed arts and cultural festival. ...
Broome () is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia. ...
Vibe Australia Pty Ltd (Vibe) is an Aboriginal media, communications and events management agency. ...
External links - Manikay.Com - For the promotion and enjoyment of traditional Arnhem Land music.
- Traditional music of the Torres Strait - audio and video highlights from the archives of the celebrated Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) . Released by Skinnyfish music - recorded in 1960 and 1961, with the support of the Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. (Commercial link).
- CAAMA Music Myspace - For the promotion and enjoyment of Indigenous Music under the CAAMA Music Label. (Commercial link).
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