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Australian music's early western history, was a collection of British colonies, Australian folk music and bush ballads, with songs such as "Waltzing Matilda" and The Wild Colonial Boy heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, Indeed many bush ballads are based on the works of national poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.
"The Song of Australia" was composed as the result of 1859 competition to create a "patriotic song", sponsored by the Gawler Institute in Adelaide. The winning lyrics were written by an English-born poet, Caroline Carleton , and the music chosen by the judges was composed by the German-born Carl Linger (1810-1862), [ 1 ] a prominent member of ...
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.
The Black Arm Band – concert band of some of Australia's premier Indigenous musicians; Black Image – North Queensland band; Blackfire – rock band from Melbourne; Blackstorm – rock/blues band from Yuendumu; Blekbala Mujik (Blackfella Music) – band from Arnhem Land; Busby Marou – folk country pop band from Rockhampton
M. Stewart MacFarlane; Hot Dub Time Machine; Andrew Macleod (musician) Marcello Maio; Ishmael Marika; Tina Martyn; Jake Mason; Peter Mayes; Kavisha Mazzella; Pete McCracken
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary. [1] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years".
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 ...
Australian country music is a part of the music of Australia. There is a broad range of styles, from bluegrass, to yodeling to folk to the more popular. The genre has been influenced by Celtic and English folk music, the Australian bush ballad tradition, as well as to a lesser extant by popular American country music. [1]