Indigenous music of Australia

The indigenous music of Australia refers to as the music of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. The music forms an integral part of the social, cultural and ceremonial observances of these people as it has been for over 60,000 years. The traditional indigenous music is best characterized by the dideridoo, and the best instrument used is the considered by some of the world oldest. Archaeological studies have shown that the rock art in the Northern Territory people of the Kakadu region were playing the instrument over 15,000 year ago.

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The current indigenous Australia music has enclosed numerous styles which include the rock and roll country, hip hop, and reggae. Jimmy Little is known as the first Aboriginal performer to pull main stream success, with his entrance in 1964 song. The Royal Telephone highly popular and successful in 2005, and then Little was present with an Honorary Doctorate in music by the University of Sydney. In spite the popularity of some of his work, Little failed to release any indigenous music in the country but from the 1970’s onwards, group such as Coloured Stone, Warumpi Band, and No Fixed Address help improve the image of the genre music. It was the Yothy Yindi who brought the indigenous music to the mainstream, with their 1991 song Treaty from the album tribal voice becoming a hit music. The band’s performances were based on the traditional Yolnge dance and embodied a sharing of the culture. Also, the success of the yothu Yindi inners of the winners of eight ARIA Awards was followed by the Kev Carmody, Tiddas, Christine Anu, and numerous different indigenous Australian music.

The Australia indigenous music is unique which is dates back more than 60,000 years to the prehistory of Australia and continues the ancient songlines through current artists as change as David Dahwurr Hudson, Jimmy Little, Warumpi Band, Yothu Yindi, Tiddas, Wild Water, Christine Anu, Geoffery Gurrumul Yumupingu, Saltwater Band, Nabarlek, Noktunl, the Pigram Brother, Coloured Stone, Blekbala Mujik, Kev Carmody, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter.