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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.
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
Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal music" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Indigenous people in Australia are both Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders. People of South Sea Islander descent may be included by popular culture, although they are the descendants of Pacific Islanders brought to Australia during the 19th century as indentured labour on the Queensland sugar canefields .
Australian Aboriginal music (1 C, 9 P) B. ... Pages in category "Indigenous Australian music" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis and American country music artist Jim Reeves. [1] His gospel song "Royal Telephone" (1963) sold over 75,000 copies, and his most popular album, Messenger, peaked at No. 26 in 1999 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Tribal Music of Australia: Indigenous Australians from the Yirrkala district in Arnhem Land; recorded by A. P. Elkin: 1953 2007a 242999 "She's My Baby" Johnny O'Keefe: 1960 2007a 291386 'Kerr's cur' speech: Gough Whitlam: 1975, Nov. 11 2007a 156392 "Down Under" Men At Work: 1981 2007a 337398 Fanny Cochrane Smith's Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs