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Chapter 4 introduces the music and associated cultural activities from Oceania. Oceania is divided into four main areas: Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. Each musical site represents one of these areas, introducing a type of music from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and the islands of Kiribati. The Explore More feature boxes introduce the Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Ukulele popular music style, as well as the prominent slit gongs and singsing festivals found in Papua New Guinea.
Key Terms
- Aborigines
- Bino
- Circular breathing
- Didjeridu
- Dreamtime
- Garamut
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar
- Hula Pahu
- Kahuna
- Kapu
- Kilu
- Kundu
- Mana
- Maneaba
- Melanesia
- Mele hula
- Mele
- Micronesia
- Pahu
- Polynesia
- Ukelele
- Coroboree
- Portamento
- Singsings
- Susap
Flashcards
Practice Quiz
Audio Examples
4.1
Australia - Aboriginal Song: "Bushfire" by Alan Maralung with Peter Manaberu from the recording entitled The World's Musical Traditions, Vol. 4: Bunggridj-Bunggridj: Wangga Songs: Northern Australia, SFW40430, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1993. Used by permission.
4.2
Papua New Guinea - Susap: "Badra Song from Buzi" by Amadu, Guiga, and Yabba from the recording entitled Music from South New Guinea, FW04216, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1971. Used by permission.
4.3
Hawai’i: Drum-Dance Chant: "Kau ka hali'a I ka manawa / Kaulīlua I ke anu Wai'ale'ale” (medley) by Noenoelani Zuttermeister Lewis and Hau'olionalani Lewis from the recording entitled Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time, SFW40015, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1989. Used by permission.
4.4
Kiribati: “Kai e titirou e matie,” sung with clapping by men and women of Ititin Rotorua Dance Troupe, Betio Village, Tarawa Island, Kiribati; recorded by Mary Lawson Burke, 1981. Used by permission.
Video Links
For more world music videos, visit the World Music YouTube Channel .
- How to Play the Didjeridu
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlEkeot7HM
- Goroka Cultural Show – Papua New Guinea
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ySBrPvDCy3k
- Sing Sing Goroka Show
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcealFUTqb4
- Demo of Susap from Papua New Guinea
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGjOJvo9NpU
- What it takes to be a Hula Champion
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NhPqimnr3o
- KIRIBATI: Amazing traditional dancing
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmiMW042kn4
Audio Book
Coming soon...
On Your Own Time
Links and further resources
Australia
- Book:
- Marret, Allan. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
- http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6617-9.html
- Audio:
- Maralung, Alan, and Peter Manaberu. Bunggridj-Bunggridj: Wangga Songs:Northern Australia. Smithsonian Folkways: SFW40430, 1993.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-worlds-musical-traditions/id81978916
- Audio:
- Seachnasaigh, Will. Dharpa Songs of the Dreamtime. Lyrichord: LYRCD 7442, 1998.
- http://lyrichord.com/dharpasongsofthedreamtime-willseachnasaigh.aspx
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-didjeridu-dharpa-songs/id56890650
- Website:
- Music Australia
- https://musicaustralia.org.au
- Website:
- Australian Music Center
- http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Australia
- Yothu Yindi
- Kylie Minogue
- Hoodoo Gurus
- INXS
- Audio:
- Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea. Smithsonian Folkways: SF40487, 2001.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bosavi-rainforest-music-from/id82375605
- Book:
- Feld, Steven. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
- https://www.dukeupress.edu/Sound-and-Sentiment/
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Melanesia
- George Telek
- Rosiloa
- The Wagi Brothers
- Audio:
- Hawaiian Drum-Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time. Smithsonian Folkways: SF40015, 1989.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hawaiian-drum-dance-chants/id117733099
- Video:
- Holo Mai Pele: The Epic Hula Myth. Dir. Catherine Tatge. PBS, 2004.
- http://www.piccom.org/programs/holo-mai-pele
- Website:
- Black Pearl Designs — Polynesian Culture
- http://blackpearldesigns.net/index.html
- Website:
- Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives
- http://www.huapala.org/
- Audio:
- Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman and Daniel Ho. Ikena. Daniel Ho Creations: DHC 80078, 2010.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ikena/id288690522
- Book:
- Elbert, Samuel H., and Noelani K. Mahoe. Na Mele O Hawai'i Nei: 101 Hawaiian Songs. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1970.
- https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/na-mele-o-hawaii-nei-101-hawaiian-songs/
- Book:
- Stillman, Amy Ku'uleialoha. Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula 'Ala'apapa. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.
- http://www.hulapreservation.org/published.asp
- Book:
- Kaeppler, Adrienne. Hula Pahu: Hawaiian Drum Dances, Volume I: Ha'a and Hula Pahu, Sacred Movements.
- Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1993.
- https://bishopmuseumpress.org/products/hula-pahu-hawaiian-drum-dances-volume-i
- Website:
- Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival
- http://www.slackkeyfestival.com/
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Polynesia
- Daniel Ho
- IZ (Israel Ka'ano'i Kamakawiwo'ole)
- Led Kaapana (Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar and Ukulele)
Kirbati (Micronesia)
- Audio:
- Spirit of Micronesia. Saydisc: CD-SDL 414, 1995.
- http://www.saydisc.com/ (Pacific)
- Book:
- Abels, Birgit. Sounds of Articulating Identity. Tradition and transition in the music of Palau, Micronesia. Berlin: Logos, 2008.
- http://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/buch/isbn/1866
- Book:
- Kaeppler, Adrienne. The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-pacific-arts-of-polynesia-and-micronesia-9780192842381?q=Out%20of%20the%20Mountains&lang=en&cc=us
- Website:
- New Micronesian Magazine
- http://newmicronesian.com/
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Micronesia
- Ozeky
- ReChuuk