Music in Australia Assignment 2022

Running head: MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA
Music in Australia
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Music is one of the most well-known forms of art for the humans. Music allows the
humans to express their emotions and feelings. Almost every country has its own form of
music and the musical artists. The same is the case with that of Australia. The musical scene
in Australia had developed long time ago. The music in the country dates back to the ancient
times, which continued to the time of the stolen generation. It was the times when the
indigenous Australian children were taken from their homes and relocated to the cities where
they were given different names. The protest music which develops during this time informed
about the people about the acts of the government snatching the children away from them.
The purpose of this assignment is to create a critical bibliography about the
concept of the protest music in the country of Australia.
The stolen generation refers to the time when the Australian Government has made
the decision to remove the children belonging to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders due to
the assumptions that the Aborigines are dying off. These children are then moved to the
society, where they were adapted by the people and given education and employment. The
protest music developed during this time so that the people of the country (Kelada, 2016).
The singers of the protest music, many of whom belonged to the classes of the Aboriginals
and the Torres Strait Islanders, wanted their listen about their own experiences about being
taken away from their homes.
The musicians who had developed their music during this period wanted to draw the
attention of the listeners to the situation which had happened in the country at that time. The
songs tell the listeners of the various reason why the Government wanted to remove the
children from their homes and their parents (Hutchings, 2015). The essay tells the readers
about the fact that the Government wanted the Aborigines and the Torres Island Strait
children to be adapted by the whites in the country. The readers get the idea from the case

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that almost one and ten children in every area were taken forcefully by the people from the
Government. The songs of this times also tells the listeners about the long history of the racist
policies and the mistreatment of the Government. The indigenous and the Aboriginals of
these times also suffered from other policies of the Government. These are the policies which
allowed the singers of the times to write the protest songs which would highlight the wrong
doings of the Government. The songs also informed the people about the racist policies
suffered by the Aboriginals form the whites in the country (Kelada, 2015).
In addition to this, the songs also inform the listeners about the various policies about
the Government in relation to the wages of the people. The readers get to know that the
wages were directly paid to the state by the employers. This was mainly done to protect the
indigenous people of the state. This was mainly done so that the indigenous people of the
state are able to get their salaries at the right time. Sometimes, the payments were also being
held by the Government so that the indigenous people of the times were ready to hand over
their children to the Government. In addition to this, the Queensland Government had
recently decided to settle the class action lawsuit about the stolen wage for a total of $190
million for the aboriginals in the country.
Barney, Katelyn, and Elizabeth Mackinlay. "'Singing Trauma Trails': Songs of the
Stolen Generations in Indigenous Australia." Music and Politics 4, no. 2 (2010).
In this article, the authors have stated the various information related to the stolen
generation in Australia and how the Aboriginals and the Torres Island Strait people were
deprived of their children. The readers get to know form this article the reason behind the
Government adapting such policies for the Aboriginals and the other indigenous people. In
addition to this, the readers also get to know about wages which got stolen from the
indigenous people of the country.
It is because of this that the reason that the singers like Jessie Lloyd had decided to
sing the songs dedicated to the poor people of Indigenous Australia who had lost their loved