A musical group whose instruments consist of the leaves of a gum tree, cupped in the hands and blown on.
a gumleaf band marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge for the opening in 1925
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- A bewildering montage reveals a gumleaf band behind the sliding doors of a plush ballroom deep in the heartland of Australia's moneyed establishment.
- The team also started to include a musical 'pre game' show in the form of a gumleaf band from 1929 onwards.
- He remembered the 'gumleaf band' playing during the matches.
- They also lean on the inheritance of more recent performance paradigms, such as the gumleaf band.
- Gumleaf bands were exploited as national commodities and the showcased subjects of tinsel tourism.
- The popularity peak of the touring gumleaf band movement straddled the 1920s and the 1930s Depression, facilitating a creative point of engagement between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultural worlds.
- They were also in demand at weddings and dances where a gumleaf band and a piano were sufficient to provide all the music required.
- Odd though it may seem, I'd never heard a gumleaf band before.
- It contains perhaps the most chillingly racist scene in any Australian film, the performance of an Aboriginal people's gumleaf band.
- This is a photo of the 1933 gumleaf band in procession through the town.