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Performance of Aboriginal song and dance in the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.. Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, intersecting with their cultural and ceremonial observances, through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day.
This strain of Australian country music, with lyrics focusing on strictly Australian subjects, is generally known as "bush music" or "bush band music." The most successful Australian bush band is Melbourne's the Bushwackers , active since the early 1970s, other well-known country singers include Reg Lindsay , bush balladeer singer Buddy ...
Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what ...
CASM was co-founded by Catherine Ellis, Australian ethnomusicologist, and noted Ngarrindjeri poet Leila Rankine [1] [2] (1932–1993). Then called the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra, [3] it was an ad hoc co-curricular music program located in Port Adelaide, designed to provide activities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and to help keep them out of trouble.
Cover to Banjo Paterson's seminal 1905 collection of bush ballads, entitled The Old Bush Songs. Australian folk music is the traditional music from the large variety of immigrant cultures and those of the original Australian inhabitants. Celtic, English, German and Scandinavian folk traditions predominated in the first wave of European ...
Societies defined as, or defining themselves as, "indigenous" are found in every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world. [3] Some important articles are: Music of Africa, especially the non-European, Asian or Arab-derived traditions; Māori music of New Zealand; Music of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia
Composer Joseph Trapanese was determined to make the music for “America the Beautiful,” National Geographic’s six-part series launching July 4 on Disney+, different than that of any nature ...
The second part of the song often includes "honor beats," usually in the form of four beats representing cannon fire in battle. The entire song may be repeated several times, at the discretion of the lead singer. Many songs use only vocables, syllabic utterances with no lexical meaning. Sometimes, only the second half of the song has any lyrics ...