sábado, 25 de septiembre de 2010

Music Of Australia

Australian music ranges from a broad spectrum of styles and genres. While it is the most modern trends in Australian music are based on similar trends of the US or UK, traditional indigenous music dated of prehistory of Australia.
Rock music in Australia first became popular in the 1950s, with artists including Johnny O'Keefe and letters of the topping worldwide. This tradition was continued in the 1960s by groups e.g. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, The Easybeats, the Bee Gees. This time, followed by Australian Jazz and indigenous Australian music still constantly popular.
AC/DC and INXS continued achieving commercial success in the United States, while a multitude of local, including Regurgitator, you are I, Powderfinger, Silverchair and something for Kate bandages, were popular in the country. A small electronic music scene emerged around Sydney and Melbourne, with separate heads, Ollie Olsen ' of not, and spreadsheet all flying in the 1990s.
Australian music experienced something of a renaissance of the rock in 2000s with the vines, Jet, airborne, and Wolfmother groups planning internationally. Chapels of the Hilltop was the first Australian Group of the cadera-salto towards the cover letter the ARIA. Channel 10 ' s Australian Idol program was highly popular locally, as well as the many produced "idols".

Indigenous Australian music

Indigenous Australian music refers to music Aboriginies and Torres Strait Islander. Music is an integral part of social, cultural and ceremonial observances of this people, and they have been so for more than 40,000 years. Traditional indigenous music It is characterized best by didgeridoo, the best-known tool, which is considered by some the world be the oldest. Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Territory suggests people of the Kakadu region played the instrument 15,000 years ago.
Contemporary indigenous Australian music has covered numerous, including rock and roll, country, hip break, and reggae styles.
Despite the popularity of some of his work, it could soon not launch indigenous music in country - 1970s forward, colored stone, Venda Warumpi, and no fixed address groups would help to improve the image of the genre. Would be Yothu Yindi that would bring indigenous music into the mainstream with their 1991 "Treaty", album tribal voice, making a hit song.

Early Western musical influences from Australia can be traced back to two different sources: the first free settlers who brought with them the European tradition of classical; and large condemnation body and sailors who brought with them, who brought the traditional folk music England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The practical ways to build a colony means that there are existing as of this very small music early although there is music that originate from Hobart samples and Sydney that dates back to the 1800s early

Classical Music

The establishment of both choral societies (CA. 1850) and orchestras of the Symphony (CA. 1890) led to growing, compositional activity although many Australian classical composers sought to work entirely within European models. Lot of work leading to the first part of the 20th century were heavily influenced by traditional music (Percy Grainger ' s "English country garden" 1908 which is a good example of this) and a tradition of very conservative British conductor. In the war and post-war, as built to affirm a national identity vs. great energy that was America and England, "motherland" pressure eras composers looked at their surroundings for inspiration.
By the beginning of the 1960s Australian classical music entered eruption with influences, with incorporating disparate elements in his work, extending Aboriginal and Southeastern Asian music and instruments, American jazz and the blue to the late discovery of the atonality European composers and the avante - garde.
Well known Australian classical performers include the sopranos: Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Joan Sutherland, Emma Matthews; pianists Roger Woodward, Michael Kieren-Harvey and Leslie Howard, guitarist John Williams and Barry Tuckwell horn player.

domingo, 19 de septiembre de 2010

Jazz

The history of jazz and gender related to Australia again extends 19th century. During the era of the American 1850s gold rushes, British and locally made up of the minstrel of the "blackface" (the white agente-músicos in blackface) companies began to travel Australia, travel not only the capital cities, but also many regional cities that grew as Ballarat and Bendigo. The Orchestra of the Minstrel music offered jazz - including the adornment and the improvisatory polyrhythm in play (pre-classic) features banjo and lists breakages of percussion. Some genuine Africano-Americanas companies the singing of the minstrel and Jubilee traveled in the 1870s. More jazz - and how to hit Australia trova in the last 1890s the form improvisatory and syncopated song of the coon and apelmazar - walk music, two early forms of ragtime. The next two decades brought to set, piano and vocal ragtime of ragtime and driving (on all white), American artists including Ben Harney, "Emperor gene Ragtime Greene" and pianist right Charlie. Some of these visitors were taught to Australians how a "cloth" (improvise unsyncopated pop music of the ragtime-estilo).
In the mid-1920s, phonograph machines, increased contact with American popular music and dance that visiting white American musicians had firmly established jazz (dance of the meaning and modern music descendidas jazz stage) in Australia. The first recordings of jazz in Australia are registered in Sydney Mastertouch piano rolls to leave around 1922 but jazz began to be registered on disk before 1925, first in Melbourne and soon thereafter in Sydney.

The 1970s brought jazz and innovation and diversification of continuation in which, by the end of the 1980s included the world music and classical crosses and contemporary jazz fusion jazz education tertiary courses. From this time, the trend towards mergers eclectic style has continued sets as Catholics, Australian art Orchestra, tongue and Groove, the AustraLYSIS, the Wanderlust, bottlenecks, and many others. It is questionable if the jazz label is quite elastic continue hugging the most extensive range of improvisatory associated with the term Australian jazz musics. However, modern current jazz and the dixieland still have stronger follows and still pattern meeting to hear the famous current artists who have been around for decades, such as Dugald Shaw and Blair Jordan player reeds night stand Ponga burrow and trumpeter James Morrison, and sometimes, the famous pioneer of traditional jazz in Australia, Graeme Bell players.



Country music

Australia has a long tradition of music of country, which has developed a completely different style of the their US counterparts. The early roots of the Australian country related to folk traditions of Ireland, England, Scotland and of many diverse Nations. The latter 1800s "Botany Bay" is an example. "" Dancing the waltz Matilda, often watched by foreigners as informal national anthem, Australia is an Australian quintessential country song, influenced more by the Celtic folk ballads that the American country and Western music. "This strain of Australian country music with lyrics focus on strictly Australian topics, generally known as" music of Bush "or" Bush band music. "The most successful Australian band Bush is Melbourne Bushwackers, active since the early 1970s."
Another, Americanized way Australian country music was started in the 1930s by such artists as Tex Morton recording, and popularized later about thin Polvoriento, remembered best for his 1957 song "a publication without beer". Recent years contemporary country music, offering great cross with popular music, has enjoyed considerable popularity in Australia; notable musicians in this genre include Beccy Cole, Gina Jeffreys, Stools Kernaghan and sister Tania Kernaghan, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart, and the huge successful Kasey compartments, the John Butler Trio, Keith Urban and Shannon Noll.

sábado, 18 de septiembre de 2010

Rock and popular music

Australia has produced a wide variety of popular music and rock. While many musicians and bands (some notable examples include the 60 successes of The Easybeats and the folk-pop group The Seekers , through the heavy rock of AC / DC , and the polished pop of INXS and more recently Savage Garden ) have had considerable international success, there is still some debate over whether Australian popular music really has a distinctive sound. Perhaps the most striking common feature of Australian music, like many other Australian art forms, is the dry, often self-deprecating humor evident in the lyrics. The rock music has also traditionally been the mainstay of the Australian release of the group culture and music. Dance music and to an extent, hip hop, only recently has gained nationwide acceptance and airplay .

Second wave of Australian rock

"The wave" of Australian rock is said secondly to have begun in about 1964, after the impact of The Beatles .Coup groups like Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and Ray Brown and the whispers were followed by The Easybeats , Bee Gees , The Masters Apprentices , The Loved Ones and cult acts as the heartbeat. A wave of acts also came from New Zealand , including Ray Columbus and the invaders, and meteorites Max Merritt , Dinah Lee and The La De Das .
Many Australian bands and singers seeking to enhance their careers particularly moving overseas to England then seen as the mecca of popular music. The varying degrees of success were while not all bands matched the success of the Bee Gees. Others who made the trip were the Easybeats, the first band to crack the UK market, the world and the La De Das at Lloyd's.

Third wave of Australian rock

The "third wave" of Australian rock began in about 1970 with the last of the early 60s groups dissolve.. Few events from this was achieved major international success, and were difficult to achieve continued fame across Australia, due to low radio airplay and increasing dominance of overseas performers in the letters.
Despite resistance from commercial radio, acts as diverse as AC / DC , Sherbet and John Paul Young were able to achieve significant success and develop a unique sound to the Australian rock.
One of the dominant players for the increased exposure of local music was nationally the ABC-TV broadcast TV pop show Countdown , which was soon followed by the first all-rock Australia noncommercial radio station Double Jay . Hard rock band AC / DC and group harmony rock band Little River also found significant success overseas in the late 70s and early 80s, traveling the world, while a score of Australian expatriates solo performers as Helen Reddy , Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen became major stars in the U.S. and internationally. Icehouse also formed in the late 70
The Australian music industry as a business began to formalize in the late 60's and 70's. Although not taken seriously by the mainstream business community in those years, none could discount the pioneering insights of alcohol and business from the likes of Michael Gudinski , Michael Chugg, Ray Evans , Dennis Charter , Glenn Wheatley , Harry M.

80s

 The 80s saw a gap in the independence of Australian rock Nick Cave said that before the '80s, "America, Australia and England still needed to tell what was good." An example of the Australians who broke free of the convention came in lockjaw .  Formed in 1982, the band is known for its members anonymous outrageous stage antics and humorous lyrics. In the words of the band, "there is only one factor left that makes us work. And that factor, I think we've burnt me away, with the crucible of time in something that is really genuine."
In the 80s , numerous innovative Australian bands of the rock arose. These included Hunters and Collectors , The Church , tism , Divinyls , Hoodoo Gurus , Mondo Rock , The Sunnyboys , Men at Work , mediators and The Triffids .. During this period a number of Australian bands began to reflect their urban environment in the songs dealing with everyday experiences of life in inner-city eg. Paul Kelly and the girls colored perhaps exemplified best in his songs " St. Kilda to Kings Cross "and" leaps and bounds, " John Kennedy's Love gone wrong in songs such us "King Street" and The Mexican Spitfires on runway has taste "of the steps of the City of Sydney" and " City Hall. "This decade also saw the rise of world music groups like Dead Can Dance , of special importance is Yothu Yindi , he helped found the field aboriginal rock . In 1985, Newsboys emerged and produced albums the coup not ashamed , Strengthen the microphone , Dedication , and more. Then soap star Kylie Minogue began her music career in the late '80s and released Locomotion what became the biggest selling single in Australia for decade and quickly catapulted to world stardom.

90s: Electronic music


Electronic music in Australia emerged in the 90s, but the elements of taking the funk , house , techno , and numerous other genres. The early innovators of the genre in Australia include separate heads , which formed in 1979 and was the first electronic band to play Big Day Out . The band reached the long-term success, winning an ARIA award in 2005 for "Best original soundtrack" for illustrated family doctor, where lead singer Tom Ellard said the band never fit into mainstream music.
The genre has developed a huge following, to the point University of Adelaide provides an electronic unit of music, teaching studio production and music technology . Traditional rock bands such as Regurgitator have developed an original sound combining heavy guitars and electronic influences, and groups of rock-electro, most notably the Rogue Traders have become popular among mainstream audiences. The genus is considered to be the most popular in Melbourne , with multiple music festivals held nationally in the city. However, the cyclical defrosting , the magazine's electronic music only specialist in Australia, was started in Sydney (in 1998) and is still based there. Radio still lags somewhat behind the success of Andrew Penhallow in charge of gender-producer and artist the Australian Music Online that "local media of music has often overlooked the fact that this genre has been flying the flag for Australian music overseas. "

viernes, 17 de septiembre de 2010

Hardcore

 In recent years, Australia has been known to hardcore bands such as:
  • Parkway Drive
  • I killed the Prom Queen
  • Mindsnare
  • Her nightmare
  • Carpathian
  • 50 lions
  • Day of contempt