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Mop And The Dropouts (Australian Band)
Mop and the Dropouts were an Indigenous Australian music, Indigenous Australian rock band with a significant impact on the music scene and cultural activism. Formed by a teenage Dennis ‘Mop’ Conlon, who grew up in Cherbourg, Queensland, Cherbourg in the late 1960s. Conlon's musical journey began, playing alongside his uncle Doodie Bond and other uncles in band The Magpies, which was a precursor band that eventually evolved into the well-known Mop and the Dropouts. Conlon started the group to help promote "goodwill and understanding between Black and White cultures" through music. History As a fourteen-year-old Dennis moved to Brisbane and started a new version of the Magpies (also known as Dennis Colon and the Magpies and Dennis Conlon and his band) that would play shows at Open Doors, an Aboriginal-run venue and South Brisbane venue, The Ship Inn. In the late 1970s, the band occasional shows with punk bands, including Razar. The band played many fundraiser shows for Black or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australian Music
Indigenous music of Australia comprises the music of the Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, intersecting with their culture, cultural and ceremonial observances, through the millennia of their individual and collective histories to the present day. The traditional forms include many aspects of performance and musical instrumentation that are unique to particular regions or List of Aboriginal Australian group names, Aboriginal Australian groups; and some elements of musical tradition are common or widespread through much of the Australian continent, and even beyond. The music of the Torres Strait Islanders is related to that of adjacent parts of New Guinea. Music is a vital part of Indigenous Australians' cultural maintenance. In addition to these Indigenous peoples, Indigenous traditions and musical heritage, ever since the 18th-century European colonisation of Australia began, Indigenous Australian musicians and performers have ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
