Buried Country
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Buried Country is a highly regarded documentary film, book and soundtrack. Buried Country tells the story of Australia
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in the Aboriginal
community, focusing on important musicians to tell the story. The book Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music is written by Clinton Walker. Film Australia
has produced a study guide.
The soundtrack Buried Country: Original Film Soundtrack (Larrikin Records
) is a double CD showcasing music by the Aboriginal artists featured in the film and book. Buried Country, (Andy Nehl, 2000) Film Australia. The documentary Buried Country is directed by Andy Nehl and written by Andy Nehl and Clinton Walker
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Australian country music
Australian country music is a part of the music of Australia. There is a broad range of styles, from bluegrass, to yodelling to folk to the more popular. The genre has been influenced by Celtic and English folk music, by the traditions of Australian bush balladeers, as well as by popular American...
in the Aboriginal
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
community, focusing on important musicians to tell the story. The book Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music is written by Clinton Walker. Film Australia
Film Australia
Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia. Its mission was to create an audio-visual record of Australian culture, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs that deal with matters of national interest or...
has produced a study guide.
The soundtrack Buried Country: Original Film Soundtrack (Larrikin Records
Larrikin Records
Larrikin Records is a record company founded in 1974 by Warren Fahey. Larrikin started as an independent label and was sold in 1995 to Festival Records....
) is a double CD showcasing music by the Aboriginal artists featured in the film and book. Buried Country, (Andy Nehl, 2000) Film Australia. The documentary Buried Country is directed by Andy Nehl and written by Andy Nehl and Clinton Walker
Clinton Walker
Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music but with a broader interest in social and cultural history and theory....
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Featured artists
- 1940s-50s
- Jimmy LittleJimmy LittleJimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...
- Georgia LeeGeorgia Lee (singer)Georgia Lee was a jazz and blues singer from Cairns, Queensland, Australia.Born as Dulcie Rama Pitt, her father was of Jamaican descent and her mother was Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Islander and Scottish. With her sisters Sophie and Heather Pitt, she formed the Harmony Sisters and performed as...
- Herbie LaughtonHerbie LaughtonHerbie Laughton is a country singer from Alice Springs, Northern Territory. He was born in 1927 in a creek bed. He was a member of the stolen generation....
- Jimmy Little
- 1960s-70s
- Dougie YoungDougie YoungDougie Young was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland. Young had a white father and a Gurnu mother.Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman, during which he learnt the guitar and started writing songs. A riding accident later ended his working as a stockman...
- Lionel RoseLionel RoseLionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...
- Vic SimmsVic SimmsWilliam Victor Simms, known as Vic Simms and Vicki Simms, is an Australian singer and song writer. He is from La Perouse, New South Wales and is a Bidjigal man....
- Bobby McLeodBobby McLeodBobby McLeod was an Aboriginal activist, poet, healer, musician and Yuin elder. He was from Wreck Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory. He was involved in the fight for Aboriginal rights in Australia and travelled the world speaking about cultural lore, health and healing.- Life :Bobby was born in...
- Harry and Wilga WilliamsHarry and Wilga WilliamsHarry and Wilga Williams were an Indigenous Australian husband and wife duet who performed professionally between the 1960s and 1980s. Harry Williams was called the godfather of Koori country and Wilga the first lady...
- Dougie Young
- 1970s-80s
- Gus WilliamsGus Williams (musician)Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams OAM, known as Gus Williams was a country singer from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. He was an Arrernte man, who was born in Alice Springs. He was the father of country star Warren H Williams.In 1983 Williams was given a Medal of the Order of Australia for services...
- Auriel AndrewAuriel AndrewAuriel Andrew is an Indigenous Australian country musician of the Arrernte people of Central Australia.Andrew grew up in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, leaving for Adelaide, South Australia aged 21 to pursue her music career.She appeared in the SBS documentary "Buried Country: The Story of...
- Bob Randall
- Isaac YammaIsaac YammaIsaac Yamma was a country singer from Central Australia. He was a Pitjantjatjara man who was born by a waterhole near Docker River . He started his musical career as a member of Areyonga Desert Tigers...
- Gus Williams
- 1980s-90s
- Roger KnoxRoger KnoxRoger Knox is an Australian country singer known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country. He is an Gamilaroi man , was born in Moree and grew up in the Toomelah Aboriginal Mission near Boggabilla near the border between New South Wales and Queensland.In 1980s Knox was in a plane crash that...
- Kevin Gunn
- Troy Cassar-DaleyTroy Cassar-DaleyTroy Cassar-Daley is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales, Australia.He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year...
- Roger Knox
External links
- Music Australia Collection Listing for Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music by Clinton Walker
- Screen Australia Film Listing
- Pluto Press Australia Book Publishers