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Songs from the Second Float : A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea / Richard Moyle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Islands Monographs SeriesPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 95 illus., 5 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824831752
  • 9780824864385
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.62/9946 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3917.P37 M69 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Geography and History -- Chapter 2. Takū Society as the Locus for Musicking -- Chapter 3. Religious Contexts of Music -- Chapter 4. Processes of Takū Music -- Chapter 5. The Nature of Takū Song -- Chapter 6. The Nature of Takū Dance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Takū Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824864385

Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Geography and History -- Chapter 2. Takū Society as the Locus for Musicking -- Chapter 3. Religious Contexts of Music -- Chapter 4. Processes of Takū Music -- Chapter 5. The Nature of Takū Song -- Chapter 6. The Nature of Takū Dance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Takū Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

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This 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)