Indigenous rock

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Indigenous or Aboriginal rock is a style of music which mixes rock music with the instrumentation and singing styles of Indigenous peoples. Two countries with prominent Aboriginal rock scenes are Australia and Canada.

Australia

In Australia, Aboriginal rock mixes rock styles and instruments (e.g. electric (

. Aboriginal rock is mostly performed by Indigenous bands, although some bands include non-Aboriginal members.

Bands include

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Famous songs include "Treaty", "My Island Home", and "Blackfella/Whitefella".

Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada include

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Ecuador

Several mestizo-bands in Ecuador made use of indigenous musical elements in rock music since the 1990s. Rocola Bacalao integrated Andean rhythms and made in their song-texts references to emblematic indigenous towns, such as Pujilí in Cotopaxi. Sal y Mileto and Casería de Lagartos coined the genre of new Ecuadorian Rock. Nevertheless, in the 1980s and the early 1990s the rhythm of the social as expressed in Ecuadorian rock was characterized by hopelessness and resistance or even resignation against repression. With the emergence of a powerful indigenous movement the rhythm changed. The most emblematic references towards the political impact of the indigenous movement are made by the metalband Aztra and the hardcore band CURARE at the beginning of the 2000s, during the heyday of indigenous social protest against neoliberalism and for (ethnic) democratization.[1]

See also

• Category:Australian Aboriginal art
• List of Indigenous Australian musicians

References

Further reading

Australia

• Dunbar-Hall, Peter (1997). Music and Meaning: The Aboriginal Rock Album, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1997/1, pp. 38–47
• Dunbar‐Hall, Peter; Gibson, Chris (2000). "Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music". Popular Music and Society. 24 (2). Informa UK Limited: 45–73.
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