Sound alliances : indigenous peoples, cultural politics, and popular music in the Pacific / edited by Philip Hayward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayward, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Pacific Area--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

x, 220 pages : music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell, 1998.

Summary:

Over the past two decades, indigenous peoples in the Pacific region have increasingly used and adapted forms of popular music as an expression of their cultural identity. In Australia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia this has resulted in new forms of syncretic or 'fusion' musics, such as Aboriginal Rock or 'Jawaiian' Reggae. This anthology provides the first survey of this cultural phenomenon and analyses the cultural politics of various forms of music and the media contexts in which they circulate.

Contents:

Introduction: Beyond the Axis / Philip Hayward 1

Part I Music, Identity and Cultural Politics

1 Tjungaringanyi: Aboriginal Rock (1971-91) / John Castles 11

2 He Waiata Na Aotearoa: Maori and Pacific Islander Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Tony Mitchell 26

3 Indigenization and Socio-political Identity in the Kaneka Music of New Caledonia / David Goldsworthy 45

4 Koori Music in Melbourne: Culture, Politics and Certainty / Robin Ryan 62

5 Jawaiian Music and Local Cultural Identity in Hawai'i / Andrew N. Weintraub 78

6 Hula Hits, Local Music and Local Charts: Some Dynamics of Popular Hawaiian Music / Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman 89

Part II Music, Commerce and the Media Industries

7 Developments in Papua New Guinea's Popular Music Industry / Malcolm Philpott 107

8 Questions of Music Copyright in Papua New Guinea / Don Niles 123

9 Te Wa Whakapaoho i te Reo Irirangi: Some Directions in Maori Radio / Helen Wilson 127

10 A New Tradition: Titus Tilly and the Development of Music Video in Papua New Guinea / Philip Hayward 142

11 The Proud Project and the 'Otara Sound': Maori and Polynesian Pop in the Mid-1990s / Tony Mitchell 158

Part III Access to the Mainstream: The Case of Yothu Yindi

12 Yothu Yindi: Context and Significance / Philip Hayward, Karl Neuenfeldt 175

13 Culture, Custom and Collaboration: The Production of Yothu Yindi's 'Treaty' Videos / Lisa Nicol 181

14 Safe, Exotic and Somewhere Else: Yothu Yindi, 'Treaty' and the Mediation of Aboriginality / Philip Hayward 190

15 Yothu Yindi: Agendas and Aspirations / Karl Neuenfeldt 199.

Notes:

Articles previously published in Perfect beat, the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture.

Includes discographies, bibliographical references (pages [209]-218) and index.

ISBN:

030470055X

0304700509

OCLC:

37947266