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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 establishment of National Aboriginal Dance Council Australia (NADCA, also referred to as National Aboriginal Dance Council of Australia [5]) was instigated by Christine Donnelly and ADTR in 1995. [4] It was supported by Ausdance in their presentation of the presentation of three major Indigenous dance conferences. [6]
The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies.Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo.
Aboriginal song was and remains an integral part of Aboriginal culture since time immemorial. The most famous feature of their music is the didgeridoo.This wooden instrument, used amongst the Aboriginal clans of northern Australia, makes a distinctive droning sound and its use has been adopted by a wide variety of non-Aboriginal performers.
Dance Instrumentation Other topics White Australian: bush ballad - country music: bush dance: lagerphone - wobbleboard: Indigenous Australian [1] Wangga dance: didgeridoo: songline: Cook Islander [2] imene metua - imene tuki: koauau - paatere - purerehua: Easter Islander [2] kauaha - upaupa: Fiji [2] meke i wau - meke iri - meke wesi - seasea ...
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 immigrant music.
Wangga (sometimes spelled Wongga) is an Aboriginal Australian genre of traditional music and ceremony which originated in Northern Territory and north Western Australia. Specifically, from South Alligator River south east towards Ngukurr, south to the Katherine and west into the Kimberley. [1] The Yolngu peoples of Arnhem Land created the genre.
The organisation teaches Indigenous and non-Indigenous acting, music and dance. It has won several national awards [3] and is nationally accredited as a registered training organisation. ACPA receives funding from the Queensland and Australian governments, [4] as well as from the private sector. [5]