Past Programs
Government and Politics - 1999
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The National Label of Authenticity
19/11/1999
From the official launch, hear artists Bronwyn Bancroft and Banduk Marika speak along with festivities and the music of legendary performers Leah Purcell and Jimmy Little. Afterwards National Indigenous Arts Advocacy Association (NIAAA) Board Member, Lydia Miller explains how the label works.
Later, Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre founder and Director, Christine Donnelly, talks about this weekend's National Indigenous Dance Conference.
And, of course, there's always deadly music on Awaye!
The Desert Hip Hop Project
29/10/1999
Young Aboriginal people in Central Desert are forging new music that reflects their environment and the issues that arise when living in remote Australia.
This program looks at issues of racism, substance abuse, land rights, suicide and police harassment from the perspective of young Aboriginal people in Alice Springs. Producer Tony Collins spent a month or so with the young people in this program, recording their music and listening to their stories. The program looks at how the young people use hip hop as an artistic expression of the joys and frustrations of everyday life. It looks at how black American pop icons have inspired a generation of black Australians to express themselves - who also have to rid themselves of the trappings: American gangsta slang, sexism and violence, and the accents - and develop their own styles.
