The Garland encyclopedia of world music. [Volume 9], Australia and the Pacific Islands.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Islands of the Pacific.

Folk music.

Folk music--Australia.

Genre:

Field recordings.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Australia and the Pacific Islands audio CD

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Garland Science, 1998.

Language Note:

Words in original languages.

System Details:

digital

stereo

audio file

Contents:

Fijian club dance (1:00)

Tannese conch-shell trio (0:23)

Pohnpei kava-pounding rhythms (1:30)

Manihiki polyphonic hymn (2:15)

Samoan protestant hymn (1:30)

Samoan performance of the Gloria, an ordinary text of the mass (1:00)

Rapa Nui string-figure song (0:25)

Baluan lullaby (0:28)

Samoan responsorial dance-song (1:05)

Chimbu courtship song (0:54)

Huli ceremonial music (1:00)

Anutan lament for a father (1:10)

Tongan coordinate polyphony (1:45)

Tongan formal dance-song (1:30)

Santa Cruz three-line strophic song (0:45)

Kiribati women's hip-shaking dance (1:35)

Samoan men's body-percussion dance (0:30)

Sounds of a Huli two-stringed musical bow (0:44)

Sounds of a tongan nose-blown flute (0;45)

Sounds of a susap (1:20)

Manihiki choreographed dance (3:55)

Piece for two large friction blocks (0:19)

Piece for small friction block (0:20)

Sounds of a small swung slat (0:23)

Sounds of four ribbon reeds and six human moaners (0:21)

Sounds of large and small friction blocks, a swung slat, ribbon reeds, and human moaners (0:40). (cont.): Hawaiian dance-song (1:58)

Arnmen Land wangga song (2:05)

Baluan commemorative song (4:27)

Music at a Waina ida (1:50)

Wiru poetic recitation (1:10)

Usarufa blood-song (2:45)

Rai Coast sacred music (2:05)

Asmat "ghost-celebrating song" (1:20)

Dani singing in coordinate monophony (1:20)

Tigak shark-catching song (0:58)

Baluan bridewealth-paying song (1:50)

Nasioi celebratory dance-music (1:45)

Nissan music for masked dancers (1:20)

New Caledonian festal dance-song (1:30)

Marshallese staff-dance music (1:45)

Yapese sitting men's dance (1:07)

Marshallese erotic song (2:05)

Marshallese song for sailing (1:30)

Kiribati song for the bino (1:30)

Kiribati secular choral song (1:32)

Kiribati contemporary dance-song (1:05)

Samoan homemade ukulele (0:40)

Samoan store-bought ukulele (0:35)

Sikaiana danceless song (1:00)

Tahitian rhythmic patterns (0:47)

Marquesan pig dance (0:36)

Maori bellicose dance-song (1:30)

Rapa Nui popular song (1:40).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

Issued with text of the same title.

Includes liner notes on audio examples in English.

Title from resource description page (viewed January 04, 2021).

For various combinations of solo voices, choruses, solo instruments, instrumental ensembles.

Streaming audio files.

Recorded mostly between Sept. 12, 1940 and June 5, 1994; track 9 recorded at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Sept. 23, 1893 ("the earliest date from which a recorded performance of oceanic music survives"--Notes).

OCLC:

932070300

Publisher Number:

ASP409886/glnd

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.