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ABORIGINEE SONGS

Australia a land of enchantment and mystery, accepted by most people as different in evolutionary terms from the rest of the life supporting areas on earth.

To the history books of British origin, Australia was discovered by Captain Cook.However I would prefer to accept that he started the colonisation of the region on and around the date of 1770. In Europe these were the days of discovery .

Peoples of different race and creed coming together as never before, little did they realise the extent of travel that would occur in the later half of the twentieth century, nor the understanding en mass about racial harmony. In fact all the scientists were unable to adopt a gentle pose toward the aboriginal people.These people, the aboriginees, being spread over a vast area were of different tribes and yes primitive,but the fascinating thing is that their culture holds valuable clues to our own origins.How ? the story goes something like this,

The land is vast and primeval, man has descended his forfathers countless times,life is a continuous fight for survival,we haven’t reached far into our own evolution,no paper and pen are there to record stories although we enjoy an art form of decoration and cave painting.

To exist in this harsh enviroment is learning from fathers , mothers and ancestral ways,everything is told ,heard and interpreted from others points of understanding.

an aboriginal guy who goes by the name of” Bob Mazza” . He is a musician who admits that he makes the music of his people.It is mainly created by beating sticks together, blowing through hollow branches and chanting, which give a good history lesson into the evolution of music itself.

They have language,and as Bob Mazza tells,” stories are told around the fire”, food gathering and hunting are the order of the day,recall the definitions in your history books, people are described as hunter gatherers,some lived in the deserts some on the coast and were even themselves developing at different rates;

quote from Bob,” go back long long time, white fella he call it dream time,

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Corobaree is the time when my people come together to sing and dance, very good time that one,that’s how come our culture is here today,we tell the dream time stories to our children,they learn about the spirit ancestors. Them spirits made this land you know, the rivers, the mountain, the rocks, the trees. Them spirits taught us how to live.A lot of them songs are sacred you know, only a man initiated into the tribal law can listen , some of our music is for everybody round the camp fire a lot of good fun.

Yumo, from another part of australia they’ve got their own dream time stories but we’ve all got the same time.

For a long long time stories were handed down father to son, mother to daughter, over and over from before time, many thousands of years.This last phrase is the influence of european culture on the mind of this guy Bob Mazza and obviously so is the English language ,that is unavoidable, so is the fact that not for much longer and i mean a couple of generations only,will it be possible to hear from anybody who can understand the culture that existed prior to the European colonisation of these lands.

Sentiment apart,this situation is like the extinction of the Dinosaur,once lost it cannot be studied as a living entity.That may .not be at first reflection a problem,solely it may not be, but

the state of progress to me warrants these cultures to be reflected on now while