Imagine an Aboriginal man walking in northern Australia thousands of years ago. He sees a eucalyptus tree, approaches it, bends towards one of its branches and knocks. He hears the thok-thok sound of ...

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When Crystal Bowersox performed "Come Together" while accompanied by a didgeridoo on Tuesday's "American Idol," many people wondered about the instrument's origin. The didgeridoo is a long, Australian ...

SYDNEY, Sept 4 (Reuters Life!) - The publisher of the Australian edition of bestseller "The Daring Book for Girls" will remove a chapter teaching girls how to play the didgeridoo after Aboriginal ...

Nicole Kidman has broken an Aboriginal taboo against women playing the didgeridoo after using the instrument on German TV. The actress blew into a didgeridoo on the show Wetten Dass...? while ...

Ash Dargan, a leading didgeridoo musician, never learned of his Aboriginal roots until the age of 22. Adopted as a child, Dargan says, “I was raised on Australia’s East Coast, in Queensland. I grew up ...

An ancient tree branch hollowed out by termites and a finely carved wooden violin—on the surface, they couldn’t be more different. But in the hands of William Barton and Ghetto Classics, these ...