TAGGED: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians
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Three excerpts from the feature documentary The Song Keepers (Naina Sen, Australia, 2017), about the Central Australian Women’s Choir.

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'Truck Driving Woman' is the first song from Auriel Andrew’s debut EP, released on the Adelaide-based label, Nationwide Records. Andrews moved to Adelaide in 1968 to pursue her music career.

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Wilma Reading released three 7” single records on Australia’s Rex label in the early years of her career.

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The Central Australian Women’s Choir (CAWC) consists of combined members from community choirs throughout remote Northern Territory.

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This is a 30-second excerpt from the beginning of 'Stranger in My Country’, written and performed by Vic Simms.

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Black and Deadly: Indigenous Women in Music timeline.

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This is the first verse of ‘Jailanguru Pakarnu’, a 12-bar rock and blues song performed in this clip by the Warumpi Band.

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In this clip we hear the landmark Aboriginal protest song 'We Have Survived’, as performed by No Fixed Address on the soundtrack of 'Wrong Side of the Road' (1981).

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This song features on a six-track EP that was the first recording of an Indigenous Australian singing his own compositions in a country music style.

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Australia's Amateur Hour was a pioneering radio talent show that became a pop-culture phenomenon.