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Genresclassical · hip-hop · indigenous · Ska · immigrant music · jazz · country · rock (pub rock · indie · punk · metal)
OrganisationsARIA · APRA · CMAA
AwardsARIA Music Awards · CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia · The Deadlys · Australian Music Prize · J Award · WAMi Awards · NT Indigenous Music Awards · Perth Dance Music Awards
ChartsKent Music Report · ARIA Charts · Triple J Hottest 100
FestivalsBig Day Out · Splendour in the Grass · Livid · Homebake · Falls · Tamworth Country Music Festival · Womadelaide · National Folk Festival · Overcranked
MediaCountdown · Rage · Triple J · Jtv · ABC · Community Radio
National anthemAdvance Australia Fair
Cities and regions
Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Melbourne · Sydney · Perth · Hobart

Australian country music is a vibrant part of the music of Australia. The music of Australia ranges across a broad spectrum of styles and genres The trends of Australian music have often mirrored those of the United States and Britain. Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s primarily influenced by Hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Australian aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates In 1979 Ska enjoyed a renewal of popularity Initially the ska revival was a UK phenomenon but gradually it spread to the rest of the world including Australia Australia is home to several large immigrant communities from every continent in the world Jazz music has a long history in Australia Over the years jazz has held a high profile at local clubs festivals and other music venues and a vast number of recordings have been produced Australian rock and pop musicians have produced a wide variety of music Pub rock is a style of Australian Rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and still influencing contemporary Australian music today Australian indie rock is part of the overall flow of Australian rock history but has a distinct history somewhat separate from mainstream rock in Australia largely from the See also Australian rock, Punk rock Australian musicians played and recorded some of the earliest punk rock. Australian heavy metal music has its roots in both the Australian Hard rock and Pub rock tradition of the 1970s and the American and British The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA is a Trade group representing the Australian recording industry The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA is a Copyright Collecting society representing New Zealand and Australian composers lyricists The Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA is an association formed in 1992 that promotes and represents the Australian country music industry The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known as ARIA Music Awards or ARIA Awards) is an annual awards night celebrating the Australian The CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music sport entertainment and community The Australian Music Prize (AMP is an annual award of $25000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award The J Award is an award given by influential Australian Youth Radio station Triple J to Australian Album of the Year The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry put on by the Western Australian NT Indigenous Music Awards are part of the Darwin Festival and are run by Music NT in association with the Northern Territory Government’s Indigenous Arts Development This article refers to an Australian award show For other meanings see PDMA. The Kent Music Report was a weekly Record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by a music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll based on the votes of national Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners in order to determine their favourite This is a list of Music festivals in Australia. It includes festivals that have stopped running The Big Day Out ( BDO) is an annual Music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which originated in Sydney in 1992 Splendour In The Grass is an annual Music festival held in July at Belongil Fields, outside Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia LiViD, short for Linux Video and DVD, was a collection of projects that aim to create Program tools and software libraries related to DVD for Homebake is an annual Australian Rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand) The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve Music festival, held annually in Marion Bay Tasmania and Lorne Victoria Australia since 1993 The Tamworth Country Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and is a celebration of Australian The National Folk Festival is a Festival celebrating Australian folk culture first held in Melbourne in 1967. Overcranked is Australia 's biggest punk, rock and metal Music festival presented by Rave Magazine Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music Television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late rage is a popular all-night Australian Music video program broadcast on ABC1 on Friday and Saturday nights Triple J is a nationally-networked government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) mainly aimed The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. Community radio is a type of Radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history traditions and struggles of its people recognized either by a nation's " Advance Australia Fair " is the official National anthem of Australia. Adelaide is a city in South Australia. Its musical heritage includes the well-known Adelaide Festival of Arts, Barossa Music Festival and the Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues Canberra is the capital city of Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 The culture of Sydney Australia is diverse and multicultural Many of the individual cultures that make up the Sydney mosaic are centred on the ethnic linguistic See also List of musical acts from Western Australia Perth is a city in Western Australia that has produced a number of notable performers in popular music Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. The music of Australia ranges across a broad spectrum of styles and genres There is a broad range of styles, from bluegrass, to yodelling to folk to the more popular. Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of Country music. Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of Singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous

Australia has a long tradition of country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its U. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. S. counterpart. Waltzing Matilda, often regarded as Australia's unofficial National anthem, is a quintessential Australian country song, influenced more by Celtic folk ballads than by American Country and Western music. "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia 's most widely known country Folk song, and has been referred to as 'the unofficial national anthem of Australia' A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history traditions and struggles of its people recognized either by a nation's This strain of Australian country music, with lyrics focusing on strictly Australian subjects, is generally known as "bush music" or "bush band music". Not to be confused with Bush (band. A bush band is a group of Musicians that play traditional Australian Folk music

Another, more Americanised form of Australian country music was pioneered in the 1930s by such recording artists as Tex Morton. Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson New Zealand, August 30, 1916; died July 23, 1983) was a pioneer of Strictly Australian country music and bush ballads were popularized by Slim Dusty, best remembered for his 1957 song "A Pub With No Beer". David Gordon "Slim Dusty" Kirkpatrick AO, MBE ( 13 June, 1927 — 19 September 2003) was an Australian Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) A Pub With No Beer is the title of a well-known humorous country Song. In recent years local contemporary country music, featuring much crossover with popular music, has enjoyed considerable popularity in Australia. Crossover is a term applied to Musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the Record charts which track differing musical tastes or genres Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more

Country music has also been a particularly popular form of musical expression among the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia.

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Awards and festivals

The major celebration of country music in Australia is the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January each year. The Tamworth Country Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia and is a celebration of Australian

Indigenous country music is in evidence at The Deadlys, a celebration of indigenous musicians and their music. The Deadlys are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music sport entertainment and community

The Mildura Country Music Festival celebrates the Australian Independent Country Music Awards every year. The Mildura Country Music Festival is an annual Australian country music festival based in Mildura, Victoria.

Notable musicians and music groups

Recording Artists, Entertainers and Musicians

Musical groups

Radio and television programs

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