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  2. Australian folk music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Music of Australia - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Waltzing Matilda - Wikipedia

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    "Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". [1] The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" slung over one's back. [2]

  5. Indigenous music of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Manikay.Com - For the promotion and enjoyment of traditional Arnhem Land music. Blacklist.org.au - Dedicated to promoting and sharing the music and culture of Indigenous Australia. Traditional music of the Torres Strait - audio and video highlights from the archives of the celebrated Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

  6. Bush ballad - Wikipedia

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    Cover of Old Bush Songs (1905), Banjo Paterson's seminal collection of bush ballads. The bush ballad, bush song, or bush poem is a style of poetry and folk music that depicts the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush. The typical bush ballad employs a straightforward rhyme structure to narrate a story, often one of action and ...

  7. Category:Australian folk songs - Wikipedia

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    Australian folk rock songs (9 C) B. Ball Park Music songs (9 P) H. Rolf Harris songs (6 P) J. Vance Joy songs (26 P) M. Lisa Mitchell songs (4 P) P. Thelma Plum songs ...

  8. Kookaburra (song) - Wikipedia

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    The counsel for the band's record label and publishing company (Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia) claimed that, based on the agreement under which the song was written, the copyright was actually held by the Girl Guides Association. [5]

  9. Moreton Bay (song) - Wikipedia

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    Moreton Bay" is an Australian folk ballad. It tells of the hardship a convict experienced at penal settlements around Australia, in particular, the penal colony at Moreton Bay, Queensland , which was established to house convicts who had reoffended in settlements in New South Wales .