Australia

Australia A cosmopolitan nation with musics of indigenous peoples coexisting and intermingling with musics of immigrants is the destiny of Australia in the twenty-first century. From didjeridus to beer-cap rattles, from clapsticks to symphony orchestras, from island songs to urban reggae, from wallaby mimes to the postmodern dancer Pina Bausch, Australian music encompasses the expected and the fantastic. Secret rites of Aboriginal men and women are performed in songlines of the Dreaming. The…