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.