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Australian pop music - Australia's Culture PortalAustralian singer Little Pattie and the band, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, perform for soldiers of Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam, in the Free World Military building, Saigon, Vietnam. Like rock music, popular, or pop music had its origins in the 1...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: P01404.028. One of the most well-known Australian engagements of the Vietnam War was the Battle of Long Tan, 17-20 August 1966. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: COL/67/0140/VN. ...
A number of organisations promote Australian music and assist Australian musicians and composers. This Fellowship acts on behalf of Australian composers in matters of copyright, composers' fees and the amount of Australian music broadcast on radio and te...
Portrait of Slim Dusty at the Australia Day Concert (i.e. Australia Day Live), Sydney Entertainment Centre, 1984, transparency. Country music, a derivative of folk music, originated in southern and western USA and consisted mainly of rural songs accompan...
In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...
Australian independent (indie) music fills a space left by rock and pop music. With the punk movement came a formation of a new style of music, new bands, and independent music labels generally ran from backyard operations. One of the pioneering bands fo...
Marvellous Melbourne Jazz Festival - Bernie McGann Group - Bernie McGann, sax; John Pochee , drum; Chuck Yates, keyboard; Jeff Kluke, bass. An Australian jazz sound has developed through a practice of innovation where performers improvised within particu...
Australia has had a strong and vibrant jazz scene since the 1920s, commencing with visiting performers and reciprocated by Australian jazz performers touring regularly in America and Europe. Mainstream jazz centres on 'swing', although most jazz styles co...
Military bands have accompanied Australian ceremonies, parades, church services, mess dinners and performed at concerts on innumerable occasions since then. Band musicians and band music owe a great deal to Australia's Salvation Army. Other Australian p...
The Australian Institute of Music has been preparing young Australians for music careers since 1968. This is a portal to other Australian music websites of various genres, including jazz, blues, pop, rock and classical. Australian country and folk music...
Australian rock music has its roots in the 1950s and '60s when the style of music was growing in popularity around the world. In the 1970s Australian rock bands became well known for classic hard rock. First appearing in the United States of America, ro...
Indigenous music in Australia uses the environment itself to generate unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians performing across a range of genres, or styles, have achieved international recognition with a unique Australian approach. The opera sin...
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Australian singer Little Pattie and the band, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, perform for soldiers of Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam, in the Free World Military building, Saigon, Vietnam. Like rock music, popular, or pop music had its origins in the 1...
One a series of films made by Peter Weir while he was a staff writer-director at the CFU. 43 in the continuing series Australian Colour Diary, which began in the early 60s. This is a particularly important document of the Melbourne music scene of the tim...
irn=114019&search=1966&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=37149&search=1966&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=126167&search=1966&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/databa...
irn=377719&search=student+record&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=346954&search=student+record&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=352254&search=student+record&site_id=3 http://www.powerho...
irn=166443&search=mi-sex&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=166448&search=mi-sex&site_id=3 99/113/16 Contract, recording, Mi-Sex / CBS Records, paper, CBS Records Australia, Limited, Australia, 1979 http://www.powerhousemu...
irn=37183&search=pop+art&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=11891&search=pop+art&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=12099&search=pop+art&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection...
irn=360699&search=archives&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=146360&search=archives&site_id=3 95/249/1 Archive, transport, N A Percival, Australia, 1900-1950 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=14636...
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