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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.
Australian Aboriginal music (1 C, 9 P) B. Baker Boy songs (12 P) D. The Deadly Awards (19 P) M. Indigenous Australian musicians (1 C, 139 P) N. National Dreamtime ...
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
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.
Anthropologist Robert Tonkinson described Mardu songlines in his 1978 monograph The Mardudjara Aborigines - Living The Dream In Australia's Desert.. Songlines Singing is an essential element in most Mardudjara ritual performances because the songline follows in most cases the direction of travel of the beings concerned and highlights cryptically their notable as well as mundane activities.
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. ...
In Australia, Aboriginal rock mixes rock styles and instruments (e.g. electric (guitar, bass and drums) with Indigenous Australian instruments such as the didgeridoo and clapsticks. Aboriginal rock is mostly performed by Indigenous bands, although some bands include non-Aboriginal members. Bands include Yothu Yindi, Us Mob and No Fixed Address.
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.