Australian Folk Music

AUSTRALIAN FOLK MUSIC – CONTENTS

AUSTRALIA AND ITS TRADITIONAL MUSIC– an overview:

• Introduction
• Indigenous history
• Colonial music
• Broadside ballads
• Songs composed by convicts
• Bushrangers
• Songs about pioneering 1
• Songs about pioneering 2
• The discovery of gold
• American minstrel music
• The bush song
• The isolation of communities 1
• The isolation of communities 2
• Excessive drinking
• Performance situations
• Radio,war and the Depression
• Contemporary country music
• The folk song boom
• Folk music now