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{{Short description|Style of music mixing rock with Indigenous music}}
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'''Indigenous''' or '''Aboriginal rock''' is a style of [[music]] which mixes  [[rock music]] with the instrumentation and singing styles of [[Indigenous peoples]]. Two countries with prominent Aboriginal rock scenes are Australia and Canada.

==Australia==
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In Australia, Aboriginal rock mixes rock styles and instruments (e.g. electric ([[guitar]], [[Bass guitar|bass]] and [[drum]]s)  with [[Indigenous Australian]] instruments such as the [[didgeridoo]] and [[clapsticks]]. Aboriginal rock is mostly performed by Indigenous bands, although some bands include non-Aboriginal members.

Bands include [[Yothu Yindi]], [[Us Mob]] and [[No Fixed Address (band)|No Fixed Address]]. Yothu Yindi, with vocalist [[Mandawuy Yunupingu]] has politicised lyrics, such as 1991's "Treaty". Other songs relate more generally to Aboriginal culture. Another major band was the [[Warumpi Band]], which toured with [[Midnight Oil]]. The Warumpi Band focuses more on the Aboriginal aspects of the music, rather than the rock sound of Yothu Yindi. In the 2000s, Aboriginal bands such as [[NoKTuRNL]] have adopted a [[rap metal]] or [[nu metal]] sound. Formal training institutions include the Government sponsored [[Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts]].

Famous songs include "[[Treaty (song)|Treaty]]", "[[My Island Home]]", and "[[Blackfella/Whitefella]]".

==Canada==
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Indigenous peoples in Canada include [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]], [[Métis in Canada|Métis]] and [[Inuit]]. Some examples of Canadian Indigenous rock bands or artists include [[Aysanabee]], [[Breach of Trust (band)|Breach of Trust]], [[Kashtin]], [[Bruthers of Different Muthers]], [[Burnt Project 1]], [[Digging Roots]], [[Edward Gamblin]], [[The Halluci Nation]] (formerly A Tribe Called Red), [[George Leach (musician)|George Leach]], [[Derek Miller (Canadian musician)|Derek Miller]], [[Robbie Robertson]], [[Julian Taylor (singer)|Julian Taylor]], [[Ruby Waters]], and [[Tom Wilson (musician)|Tom Wilson]].

==Ecuador==
Several mestizo-bands in Ecuador made use of indigenous musical elements in rock music since the 1990s. Rocola Bacalao integrated Andean rhythms and made in their song-texts references to emblematic indigenous towns, such as Pujilí in Cotopaxi. Sal y Mileto and Casería de Lagartos coined the genre of new Ecuadorian Rock. Nevertheless, in the 1980s and the early 1990s the rhythm of the social as expressed in Ecuadorian rock was characterized by hopelessness and resistance or even resignation against repression. With the emergence of a powerful indigenous movement the rhythm changed. The most emblematic references towards the political impact of the indigenous movement are made by the metalband Aztra and the hardcore band CURARE at the beginning of the 2000s, during the heyday of indigenous social protest against neoliberalism and for (ethnic) democratization.<ref>Olaf Kaltmeier. 2019. 7.	Rockin` for Pachamama: political struggle and the narration of history in Ecuadorian rock music.” In: Sonic Politics. Ed. Olaf Kaltmeier und Wilfried Raussert. New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 179-204.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Music|Australia}}
*[[:Category:Australian Aboriginal art]]
*[[List of Indigenous Australian musicians]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
;Australia
*Dunbar-Hall, Peter (1997). Music and Meaning: The Aboriginal Rock Album, ''Australian Aboriginal Studies'', 1997/1, pp.&nbsp;38–47
*{{cite journal | last1=Dunbar-Hall | first1=Peter | last2=Gibson | first2=Chris | title=Singing about nations within nations: Geopolitics and identity in Australian indigenous rock music | journal=Popular Music and Society | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=24 | issue=2 | year=2000 | issn=0300-7766 | doi=10.1080/03007760008591767 | pages=45–73| s2cid=190738751 }}

==External links==

{{Indigenous music of Australia}}
{{Indigenous Australians}}
{{Music of Australia}}
{{Rock}}

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