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Aboriginal people regard all land as sacred, and the songs must be continually sung to keep the land "alive". [citation needed] Their "connection to country" describes a strong and complex relationship with the land of their ancestors, or "mob". [6] Aboriginal identity often links to their language groups and traditional country of their ...
Aboriginal artists Kev Carmody and Archie Roach employ a combination of folk-rock and country music to sing about Aboriginal rights issues, using the song type called barnt [further explanation needed]. [33] The documentary, book and soundtrack Buried Country showcases significant Indigenous musicians from the 1940s to the 1990s. [34]
Paul Kelly & the Messengers version. " From Little Things Big Things Grow " is a protest song recorded by Australian artists Paul Kelly & The Messengers on their 1991 album Comedy, and by Kev Carmody (with Kelly) on his 1993 album Bloodlines. It was released as a CD single by Carmody and Kelly in 1993 but failed to chart.
Australian Aboriginal culture. Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology. Reverence and respect for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. The words "law" and "lore", the latter relating to the customs and stories passed down through the ...
The Songlines is a 1987 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Aboriginal song and its connections to nomadic travel. Discussions with Australians, many of them Indigenous Australians, yield insights into Outback culture ...
Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced / j ɒ θ uː ˈ j ɪ n d i /) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swamp Jockeys (Todd Williams, Michael Wyatt, Cal Williams, Stuart Kellaway, Andrew Bellety), and an unnamed Aboriginal folk group consisting of ...
"Treaty" is a protest song by Australian musical group Yothu Yindi, which is made up of Aboriginal and balanda (non-Aboriginal) members. [1] Released in June 1991, "Treaty" was the first song by a predominantly Aboriginal band to chart in Australia [2] and was the first song partly in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain extensive international recognition, peaking at No. 6 on the ...
Young sang "Cut A Rug", a drinking song from his troubadour days in Wilcannia in the 1950s and 1960s, in both the SBS documentary and accompanying CD, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Young's song The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013 ...