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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.
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 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.
The earliest western musical influences in Australia can be traced to two distinct sources: in the first settlements, the large body of convicts, soldiers and sailors who brought the traditional folk music of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland; [1] and the first free settlers, some of whom had been exposed to the European classical music tradition in their upbringing.
The founding of Australia on the 26 January 1788 Banjo Paterson c. 1890 . The Australian music scene during the Colonial Period of Australian history was characterised and influenced by European musical traditions. Folk songs and ballads were extremely popular at this time with such songs like 'Waltzing Matilda' and 'Botany Bay' becoming ...
Australia has a long history of film production. Australia's first dedicated film studio, the Limelight Department, was created by The Salvation Army in Melbourne in 1898, and is believed to have been the world's first. [13] The world's first feature-length film was the Australian production The Story of the Kelly Gang of 1906. [14]
The mid 1980s also saw the arrival of dance music and the synthesiser, for example Rockmelons and Pseudo Echo who topped the Australian charts for 7 weeks with 'Funky Town'. There was a sudden burst of interest in female singer/songwriters in the late 1980s, with Kate Ceberano , Wendy Matthews and Jenny Morris (actually a New Zealander) being ...
Rock music in Australia, also known as Oz rock, Australian rock, and Aussie rock, has a rich history, rooted in an appreciation of various rock genres originating in the United States and Britain, and to a lesser extent, in continental Europe and Africa.