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    Indigenous Australian Pop Music Report

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    While traditional and modern indigenous Australian music share some similarities, such as the use of instruments like the didgeridoo, there are also significant differences in their structure, pitch, and duration. Traditional music generally maintains the same feeling throughout and uses longer, sustained notes, whereas modern indigenous pop features more complex layering and structure, faster rhythms and notes, and greater variation in melody, pitch, and types of harmony. Therefore, the statement that all music is basically the same does not apply when comparing traditional and contemporary indigenous Australian genres.

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    Indigenous Australian Pop Music Report

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    While traditional and modern indigenous Australian music share some similarities, such as the use of instruments like the didgeridoo, there are also significant differences in their structure, pitch, and duration. Traditional music generally maintains the same feeling throughout and uses longer, sustained notes, whereas modern indigenous pop features more complex layering and structure, faster rhythms and notes, and greater variation in melody, pitch, and types of harmony. Therefore, the statement that all music is basically the same does not apply when comparing traditional and contemporary indigenous Australian genres.

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    A report explaining indigenous Australian pop and how it relates to other modern music.

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    While traditional and modern indigenous Australian music share some similarities, such as the use of instruments like the didgeridoo, there are also significant differences in their structure, pitch, and duration. Traditional music generally maintains the same feeling throughout and uses longer, sustained notes, whereas modern indigenous pop features more complex layering and structure, faster rhythms and notes, and greater variation in melody, pitch, and types of harmony. Therefore, the statement that all music is basically the same does not apply when comparing traditional and contemporary indigenous Australian genres.

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    Indigenous Australian Pop Music Report

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    Madeleine Hayen
    While traditional and modern indigenous Australian music share some similarities, such as the use of instruments like the didgeridoo, there are also significant differences in their structure, pitch, and duration. Traditional music generally maintains the same feeling throughout and uses longer, sustained notes, whereas modern indigenous pop features more complex layering and structure, faster rhythms and notes, and greater variation in melody, pitch, and types of harmony. Therefore, the statement that all music is basically the same does not apply when comparing traditional and contemporary indigenous Australian genres.

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    Discuss the statement “All Music is Basically the Same”.

    Through the research of an


    Indigenous Australian musician, students will explore the similarities and differences
    between popular Australian music by Indigenous performers and more traditional
    Indigenous music. Include references to how the concepts listed above are treated,
    in your answer.

    Not all music is basically the same which can be seen through the study of
    traditional indigenous music and a modern indigenous artist such as Baker
    Boy.

    Both traditional and modern indigenous music may have some similarities
    such as they both use similar instruments within their songs for example
    the didgeridoo which is a traditional indigenous Australian instrument
    played by blowing through one side of the instrument and moving the
    shape of your mouth to change the sound played and clapping sticks. Both
    of these instruments are very commonly used in indigenous music and in
    indigenous pop songs such as Meditjin written and rapped by Baker Boy
    and Jess B another indigenous artist. This makes the texture of both of
    these types of songs similar as well as use of background singers to
    enhance the symbolism within the song used in both kinds of music.
    Although this is true the layering of these traditional elements within the
    songs varies quite a large amount depending on the artist in modern day
    indigenous music whereas in traditional indigenous music the general
    feeling of the song stays the same. This means generally there is a larger
    difference within Structure of the piece in modern pieces rather than
    traditional pieces making these 2 categories already extremely different.

    Within modern indigenous pop the artists traditional dialect of aboriginal


    language is used making it similar to traditional music. But modern
    indigenous artists don’t only incorporate traditional dialects anymore and
    tend to use english as well (and sometimes even more languages). This
    means the structure of the pieces tends to be more complex with more
    sections and more parts. Also due to the complexity and nature of
    singing/rapping of English in modern music, modern indigenous pop also
    has a lot faster notes changing the duration of the piece in comparison to
    the long held notes within traditional indigenous music. As well as this due
    to the fast speech and singing of modern indignous pop there is also more
    room for quick pitch change and lots of complex melodies which doesn’t
    tend to occur within indigenous pop as these held notes don’t allow for
    much variation in melody and pitch. This also means that within modern
    indegenous pop there is more room for different kinds of harmonies and
    instrumental parts allowing for homophonic, monophonic and polyphonic
    music within pieces whereas traditional music tends to follow a more
    homophonic route with one part have lots of note variation and everything
    else conducting harmonies to match the one part (melody).

    As can be seen through the structure, pitch and duration in traditional and
    modern indigenous pieces of music not all music is basically the same.

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