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