Music Essay
Australian aboriginal music has adapted and changed over the last century. This is drastically to the connection with America and how their oppressed African American community were also fighting for roughly the same rights aboriginal people were fighting for. This had a direct connection socially and before long the music caught up and aboriginal people began to feel and use this music as a way to express their troubles in the way of music just as African American Hip-hop and reggae singers did. This change from music such as hill-Billy, church hymns and folk to hip-hop and reggae caused many different protests and expressions in the way of music, and especially since this was around the time of Australian land right acts.
At the end of the 1800s and for 50 years after that many aboriginal people were moved from there tribe or place of birth to a Christian mission to learn English and bible hymns. This was done by free will or force. This leads to the topic of employment and how many aboriginal men were unemployed or working as low pay jobs such as farm laborers. The women were not better either with work such as babysitters or maids for richer families. This correlated with the music which was mainly hymns and folk tunes but that was soon about to change with the introduction to reggae and hip-hop …show more content…
This was largely to the amount that it had grown in Americas African American community and how they spoke of oppression and discrimination they were feeling, and how the aboriginals related to that. One of the most musical influential groups in America was Public Enemy and how he criticized the American media. This genre first took off with when groups such as Local knowledge and Brothablack which began to write songs about their personal and peoples discrimination. These groups grew in popularity quiet fast and won Deadly awards for their
Australian aboriginal music has adapted and changed over the last century. This is drastically to the connection with America and how their oppressed African American community were also fighting for roughly the same rights aboriginal people were fighting for. This had a direct connection socially and before long the music caught up and aboriginal people began to feel and use this music as a way to express their troubles in the way of music just as African American Hip-hop and reggae singers did. This change from music such as hill-Billy, church hymns and folk to hip-hop and reggae caused many different protests and expressions in the way of music, and especially since this was around the time of Australian land right acts.
At the end of the 1800s and for 50 years after that many aboriginal people were moved from there tribe or place of birth to a Christian mission to learn English and bible hymns. This was done by free will or force. This leads to the topic of employment and how many aboriginal men were unemployed or working as low pay jobs such as farm laborers. The women were not better either with work such as babysitters or maids for richer families. This correlated with the music which was mainly hymns and folk tunes but that was soon about to change with the introduction to reggae and hip-hop …show more content…
This was largely to the amount that it had grown in Americas African American community and how they spoke of oppression and discrimination they were feeling, and how the aboriginals related to that. One of the most musical influential groups in America was Public Enemy and how he criticized the American media. This genre first took off with when groups such as Local knowledge and Brothablack which began to write songs about their personal and peoples discrimination. These groups grew in popularity quiet fast and won Deadly awards for their