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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.
In Ancient Greece it was a sacred instrument used in the Dionysian Mysteries and is still used in rituals worldwide. [4] It was a prominent musical technology among the Australian Aboriginal people, used in ceremonies and to communicate with different people groups across the continent.
Didgeridoo and clapstick players performing at Nightcliff, Northern Territory Sound of didgeridoo A didgeribone, a sliding-type didgeridoo. The didgeridoo (/ ˌ d ɪ dʒ ər i ˈ d uː /), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.
The music of Australia has an extensive ... new instruments, ... Torres Strait Islander vocals and country music. [108] The Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter ...
Traditional Aboriginal music developed a number of unique instruments, and contemporary Aboriginal music spans many genres. Aboriginal peoples did not develop a system of writing before colonisation, but there was a huge variety of languages, including sign languages.
A survey of traditional south-eastern Australian Indigenous music by Barry McDonald (book chapter); Moyle, Alice M. (1978). Aboriginal Sound Instruments (PDF).Aboriginal SoundInstrumentsAlice M MoyleCompanion Booklet for a CompaCt DisCAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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. ...
Aboriginal Australian players from traditional didgeridoo regions (according to A. P. Elkin, in 1938 the instrument was "only known in eastern Kimberley and the northern third of the Northern Territory", [1]) belonging to clans that claim the didgeridoo as part of their ancient ancestral heritage: [2] David Blanasi; Ash Dargan; Djalu Gurruwiwi