History of Music in Australia
The Australia music is produced by the place of, on the subject of, or by the people of modern Australia, comprising of its previous indig...
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The
Australia music is produced by the place of, on the subject of, or by the
people of modern Australia, comprising of its previous indigenous and colonial
societies. The indigenous Australian music is part of the special culture of a
40,000-60,000 years history which produced the iconic music didgeridoo. The
current fusions of indigenous and Western styles (demonstrated in the works of
No Fixed Address, Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu and Geoffery Gurrumul Yunupingu)
mark excellently of the British colonies, and the Australian contributions to
the world music. During the early western history, Australia was a collection
of British colonies; the Australian traditional music and bush ballads such as
the Waltzing Matilda were heavily affected by the Anglo-Celtic traditions while
the classical forms were resulted from the those Europe.
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The
current Australian music which range from a broad range with the style often simultaneous
with those of the United State and United Kingdom together with other similar
nations around the Australian rock and Australian country music genres. The
tastes have spread along with the post-World War 11 multicultural migration to
Australia.
The
popular Australian musicians which include the opera singer Dame Nellie Melba
and Dame Joan Sutherland, country music stars include Slim Dusty (Australia’s
biggest selling domestic artist) and John Williamson; also the solo artists
include John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, Missy Higgins, kylie Minogue, Gotye
and Tina Arena, Pub rock band cold chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly; dance groups
is the Avalanches and Cut copy; Jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel; pioneer rocker
Johnny O’keefe, global folk rock band the Seekers, global rock and pop bands
Men at work, the Easy beat, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC/Dc INXS, little River
band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth
Group, You am I and powder finger etc. Other popular artists and groups include
the Choirboys, Chantoozies, Saint Jude, Cheetah, Collen Hewett, Keith urban,
the Angels, Ted Mullry Gang, Hush, the Mixtures, Helen Reddy and Diana Trask.
