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Blackfella/Whitefella

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"Blackfella/Whitefella" is an Australian country rock song written by Neil Murray and George Rrurrambu, recorded by their Aboriginal rock group, Warumpi Band, and released as the sole single from their 1985 album, Big Name, No Blankets on Parole Records and Powderworks Records. [1]

28 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Alice Springs, Angus & Robertson, Archie Roach, Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bloodhound Gang, Country rock, D.A.F. (song), George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga, Indigenous rock, Jimmy Little, Midnight Oil, Missy Higgins, My Island Home, National Library of Australia, Neil Murray (Australian musician), Northern Territory, Oz (Missy Higgins album), Papunya, Powderfinger, Powderworks Records, Sammy Butcher, Screen Australia, The Bad Touch, The Dead Heart, Torres Strait Islanders, Warumpi Band.

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Angus & Robertson

Angus & Robertson (A&R) was a major Australian bookseller, book publisher and book printer.

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Archie Roach

Archibald William "Archie" Roach, AM (born 8 January 1957, Mooroopna) is an Australian musician.

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Australia Council for the Arts

The Australia Council for the Arts, informally known as the Australia Council, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Bloodhound Gang

The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock band which began as a hip hop group but branched out into other genres, including punk rock, alternative hip hop, rapcore, funk metal and electronic rock, as their career progressed.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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D.A.F. (song)

"D.A.F." is a song by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger, released as a single from their second studio album, Double Allergic, on 5 August 1996.

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George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga

George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957 – 10 June 2007, known in life as George Rrurrambu and George Djilangya), was a Yolngu man from Elcho Island in Arnhem Land.

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Indigenous rock

Indigenous or Aboriginal rock refers to a style of music which mixes rock music with the instrumentation and singing styles of Indigenous peoples.

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Jimmy Little

James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher from the Yorta Yorta people and was raised on the Cummeragunja Mission, New South Wales.

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard), Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman (bass guitar).

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Missy Higgins

Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress.

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My Island Home

"My Island Home" is a pop song written by Neil Murray and originally performed by the Warumpi Band.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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Neil Murray (Australian musician)

Neil James Murray (born 1956 in Ararat, Victoria) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter-guitarist and writer.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oz (Missy Higgins album)

Oz is the fourth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, and was released by Eleven on 19 September 2014.

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Papunya

Papunya is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Powderfinger

Powderfinger were a Queensland rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989.

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Powderworks Records

Powderworks Records as Powderworks Records & Tapes Pty Limited was an Australian record label established in 1977, head-quartered in Brisbane.

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Sammy Butcher

Sammy Butcher, an Indigenous Australian, was born at Papunya, Northern Territory in Central Australia.

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Screen Australia

Screen Australia is the Australian Federal Government's key funding body for the Australian screen production industry.

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The Bad Touch

"The Bad Touch" is a song recorded by American alternative rock band Bloodhound Gang.

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The Dead Heart

"The Dead Heart" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil.

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Torres Strait Islanders

Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia.

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Warumpi Band

Warumpi Band were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory in 1980.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfella/Whitefella

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