Comparative listening activity

Think how and why the fusion between popular music and traditional Aboriginal Music works.

Activity

  1. Revise your Characteristics of Aboriginal Music list, created in lesson 1.

  2. Create a similar list of characteristics for popular music.

  3. Listen to the two versions of 'Treaty' and complete a Venn diagram, outlining the Aboriginal and popular music characteristics used by the two composers.

  4. Consider similarities and differences in your Venn diagram.

  5. Opinion - Do you think ‘Treaty’ would have had an impact on young people if Filthy Lucre did not remix it? In your answer consider the use of technology in the composition.

  6. Upload your Venn diagram and opinion to your school's digital learning platform.

Copy of Graphic organisers - Venn diagram

References