Tikopia Songs
Author: Raymond Firth
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the poetry and music of a Polynesian people, the Tikopia, can have an intimate relation with their social life.
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Weavers of Song
Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781869402129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.
The Structure of Tikopia Music
Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs from the Second Float
Author: Richard Moyle
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-07-31
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0824864387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesian community whose geographical isolation, together with a local ban on missionaries and churches, combine to allow its 600 members to maintain a level of traditional cultural practices unique to the region. Takü is arguably the only location where traditional Polynesian religion continues to be practiced. This book explores the many ways in which spirit activities impact on both domestic and ritual life, how group singing and dancing give audible and visible expression to a variety of religious beliefs, and how spirit mediums relay songs and dances from the recent dead. Takü’s community is well able to articulate the significance of their own strong performance tradition, and this book allows expert singers and dancers to speak passionately for themselves on subjects they understand intimately. Musical ethnographies from the Pacific are rare. Like Moyle’s earlier landmark volumes on Samoan and Tongan music, and also his trilogy on Australian Aboriginal music, this work will be of immense value to Pacific studies and will assume a place among the recognized staples of ethnomusicological research.
South Pacific Oral Traditions
Author: Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780253328687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.
Musics of Many Cultures
Author: Elizabeth May
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-07-28
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0520340574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North American music is represented by the musics of the Native Americans and the Alaskan Eskimos. The essays are profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, diagrams, photographs, and music examples. There are extensive glossaries, bibliographies, and annotated film lists. The book is directed to readers seriously interested in acquainting themselves with musics beyond the confines of Western musicology. Contributors include Bruno Nettl, Kuo-huang Han and Lindy Li Mark, Kang-sook Lee, William P. Malm, David Morton, Bonnie C. Wade, Margaret J. Kartomi, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Trevor A. Jones, Atta Annan Mensah, John Blacking, Alfred Kwashie Ladzekpo and Kobla Ladzekpo, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Jozef M. Pacholczyk, Ella Zonis, Abraham A. Schwadron, David P. McAllester, Lorraine D. Koranda, and Dale A. Olsen. Please note: this book was originally published with records. The edition available now does not include the records. We are hoping to make the original recordings available in some other way.
The People of the Sea
Author: Paul D'Arcy
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006-03-31
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0824846389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied permanently by humankind, surprisingly little research has been done on the maritime dimension of Pacific history. The People of the Sea attempts to fill this gap by combining neglected historical and scientific material to provide the first synthetic study of ocean-people interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. It emphasizes Pacific Islanders' varied and evolving relationships with the sea during a crucial transitional era following sustained European contact. Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups. The author constructs an extended and detailed conceptual framework to examine the ways in which the sea has framed and shaped Islander societies. He looks closely at Islanders' diverse responses to their ocean environment, including the sea in daily life; sea travel and its infrastructure; maritime boundaries; protecting and contesting marine tenure; attitudes to unheralded seaborne arrivals; and conceptions of the world beyond the horizon and the willingness to voyage. He concludes by using this framework to reconsider the influence of the sea on historical processes in Oceania from 1770 to the present and discusses the implications of his findings for Pacific studies.
Bounty Chords
Author: Philip Hayward
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780861966783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the role of song and dance in the societies of Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Author: J.W. Love
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 1116
ISBN-13: 1351544322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Common Worlds and Single Lives
Author: Verena Keck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1000323900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about nature, plants and animals is vanishing. However, in parallel with this, the people of the Pacific are confronted with new modes of knowledge and newly introduced technologies through imported educational systems, missions of various denominations, and the media. They do not passively assimilate this knowledge but adopt, adapt, and apply it in a syncretistic way.These changes will have permanent effects on the individual lives of people in the region and their knowledge about themselves and their surrounding 'world'. This stimulating book tracks the course of these developments and offers revealing insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.
