Australian Studies

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Australian Studies

• Culture Music Stories

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Culture Music

• The music of Australia ranges across a broad
  spectrum of styles and genres.
• Whilst most modern trends in Australian music are
  based on similar trends from the United States or
  United Kingdom, traditional indigenous music
  dates back more than 60,000 years to the
  prehistory of Australia, and continues the
  ancient song lines through contemporary artists
  as diverse as Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu,
  Geoffrey Archie Roach.

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Culture Music

• Rock music in Australia first became popular in
  the 1950s , with artists including Johnny O'Keefe
  and topping charts around the world.
• This tradition was continued into the 1960s, by
  groups such as Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, The
  Easy beats, and The Bee Gees.
• Throughout this time, Indigenous Australian music
  and Australian jazz remained consistently popular.

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Culture Music

• Pub rock was immensely popular in the 1980s, and
  the era was typified by Mental As Anything,
  Midnight Oil, The Angels, Cold Chisel and
  Icehouse.
• INXS and Men at Work also achieved fame
  worldwide, and the song "Down Under" became an
  unofficial anthem for Australia.
• Australian hip hop began in the early 1980s,
  primarily influenced by overseas works, but by
  the 1990s a distinctive local style had emerged,
  with groups such as the Hilltop Hoods achieving
  international acclaim for their work

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Culture Music

• The 90s saw an increase in the popularity of
  indie rock in Australia.
• AC/DC and INXS continued to achieve commercial
  success in the United States, whilst a multitude
  of local bands, including Regurgitator, You Am I,
  Powderfinger, Silverchair and Something for Kate,
  were popular throughout the country.
• A small electronic music scene emerged around
  Sydney and Melbourne, with Severed Heads, Ollie
  Olsen's No, and Foil all peaking in the 90s.

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Culture Music

• Australian music experienced somewhat of a rock
  renaissance in the 2000s with groups such as The
  Vines, Jet, Airbourne and Wolfmother charting
  internationally.
• Hilltop Hoods were the first Australian hip-hop
  group to reach the top of the ARIA chart.
• Channel 10's Australian Idol program was highly
  popular locally, as were the many "idols"
  produced.

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Culture Stories

• Australian literature began soon after the
  settlement of the country by Europeans. Common
  themes include indigenous and settler identity,
  alienation, exile and relationship to place - but
  it is a varied and contested area.

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Culture Stories

• Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 2 September 1922)
  was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his
  contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the
  best-known Australian poets and fiction writers
  of the colonial period, and is often called
  Australia's "greatest short story writer.

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Culture Stories

• Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (17 February 1864
  5 February 1941) was a famous Australian bush
  poet, journalist and author.
• He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian
  life, focusing particularly on the rural and
  outback areas, including the district around
  Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of
  his childhood.
• Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing
  Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy
  of the Overflow.

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Waltzing Matilda

• Rolf Harris
• Australian Animals
• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vbl-YI44XYjI

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Waltzing Matilda

• Rolf Harris
• Swagman Pictures
• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vINdjRCNcZj0

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Advance Australia Fair

• Advance Australia Fair
• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vfcMuf8wE52k

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The Man from Snowy River

• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vfs_-DKUimeo

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Didgeridoo

• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vDC9w4KWEgJE
• http//au.youtube.com/watch?v9g592I-p-dc
• http//au.youtube.com/watch?vKBheMAfz2rc

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Aboriginal dance

• http//au.youtube.com/watch?va9OtcwpQyGc