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Indigenous music of Australia. 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 ...
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of indigenous and Western styles are exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, No Fixed Address ...
Indigenous bands. A.B. Original – hip hop duo. Aim 4 More – Brisbane band. Amunda – rock band from Alice Springs. Banawurun – "outback motown" band. Beddy Rays – punk rock band from Redland Bay, Queensland, frontman 'Jacko' is a Woppaburra man. The Black Arm Band – concert band of some of Australia's premier Indigenous musicians.
Didgeridoo and clapstick players performing at Nightcliff, Northern Territory Sound of didgeridoo A didgeribone, a sliding-type didgeridoo. The didgeridoo (/ ˌ d ɪ dʒ ər i ˈ d uː /; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.
Bullroarer. The bullroarer, [1] rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. [2] It consists of a piece of wood attached to a string, which when swung in a large circle produces a roaring vibration sound. It dates to the Paleolithic period, being found in ...
A survey of traditional south-eastern Australian Indigenous music by Barry McDonald (book chapter); Moyle, Alice M. (1978). Aboriginal Sound Instruments (PDF).Aboriginal SoundInstrumentsAlice M MoyleCompanion Booklet for a CompaCt DisCAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
A songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) within the animist belief systems of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia. They mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" in the Dreaming. These routes serve as crucial connections between individuals and their ancestral lands ...
The Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM), originally founded as the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra in 1972, is an educational centre focused on Indigenous Australian music based at the University of Adelaide. It is one of three units that make up the National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies, and is located within the ...