Australian Soundscape: First Peoples’ Music

The music of Australia is as varied as the country’s dramatic landscape and as distinctive as our native flora and fauna. First Australian’s music also has a wide range in nature - from storytelling, campaigning, to advocating and in form – from traditional to contemporary. Kulasegaram Sanchayan explores.

L: A performance at Alice Springs, 16 Feb 1960 (John Tanner) R: Yothu Yindi's Wityana Marika & Mangatjay Yunupingu. WOMADelaide, Adelaide, 1993 (Tim Webster) Source: Australian Information Service

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