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Encyclopedia > Samples of music from Australia

Music of Australia
Indigenous Australian English, Irish and Scottish
Pub Other immigrants
Timeline and samples
Genres Classical - Hip hop - Jazz - Country- Rock (Indie · Hardcore punk)
Organisations ARIA
Awards Australian Music Centre · ARIA Music Awards · The Deadlys
Charts ARIA Charts, JJJ Hottest 100
Festivals List: Big Day Out · Livid · Homebake · Falls · Stompem Ground
Tamworth (Country) · Womadelaide
Media CAAMA, Countdown, Rage, Triple J, ABC
National anthem "Advance Australia Fair"

Samples of Australian music can be found on the articles of the following artists: The earliest music of Australia was the folk music of the Australian Aborigines. ... 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... Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and still influencing contemporary Australian music today. ... Australia is home to several large immigrant communities, including the Vietnamese, Indonesians, Filipinos and others. ... The trends of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. ... Subcategories There are 3 subcategories to this category. ... The Herd performing live on stage in 2005 Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s, primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from America. ... Jazz is an American musical genre largely originated by African Americans but contributed to by many other races, including Australians. ... Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. ... Australian rock and rock musicians have produced a wide variety of music. ... 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 hardcore punk is an active rock music subgenre with a dedicated following. ... The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ... 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. ... The ARIA charts is the main Australian music sales chart issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. ... The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual top 100 list, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ... This is a list of music festivals in Australia // A-E Aquarius Festival Australian Gospel Music Festival Big Day Out - national - from 1992 Darwin International Guitar Festival Earthcore F-L Falls Festival Gone South Homebake M-O Meredith Music Festival List of Meredith Music Festival lineups by year Offshore Festival... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand. ... LiViD, short for Linux Video and DVD, was a collection of projects that aim to create program tools and software libraries related to DVD for Linux operating system. ... Homebake is an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). ... Snout playing at the 2001 Falls Festival The Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Australia since 1993-94. ... 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. ... The Tamworth Country Music Festival is a celebration of Australias rich country music culture and heritage. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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 (ABC) is Australias national non-commercial public broadcaster. ... 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. ...


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)

For Popular music (music that is popular, rather than of a specific genre or style), see Popular music. ... The Church are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. ... Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian rock musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and occasional actor, best known for his work in the rock and roll band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. ... The Whitlams is an Australian band famous for songs such as No Aphrodisiacand Blow up the Pokies. The Whitlams sound can best be described as Piano rock founded in lyrics of charming cynicism. The bands name is a tribute to former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. ...

Rock music


  Results from FactBites:
 
Sampling (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3560 words)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording, the sample, and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording.
Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph.
Music workstations and samplers use samples of musical instruments as the basis of their own sounds, and are capable of playing a sample back at any pitch.
Music of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2179 words)
The earliest music of Australia was the folk music of the Australian Aborigines.
Australia has also been home to notable classical composers as well as artists working in popular music genres such as rock, jazz, country, Gospel music and electronic music.
The first important composer of classical music in Australia is Alfred Hill, who was trained in Leipzig (Germany) but even studied the music of the native people of Australia and New Zealand, e.g.
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