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单词 gumleaf band
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Definition of gumleaf band in English:

gumleaf band

nounˈɡʌmliːf band
Australian
  • 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
    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
 
 
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