Chapter 4 - Oceania
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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
Interactive Listening Guides
Videos
For more world music videos, visit the World Music YouTube Channel.
- How to Play the Didjeridu
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NfZLiSMmDk
- 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
- Susap, Guimbarde de Papouasie
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo5FlyDeqqM
- Red Hula
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5JDAp9QIeg
- Kiribati in Colorado
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ILGKWJ1-ztw
On Your Own Time
Links and Further Resources
Australia
- 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://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-didjeridu-dharpa-songs/id56890650
- 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
- Website:
- Australian Music Center
- http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
- Website:
- Music Australia
- http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA
- 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.
- Website:
- Melanesian Music
- http://www.melanesianmusic.org/
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Melanesia
- George Telek
- Rosiloa
- The Wagi Brothers
- Audio:
- Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman and Daniel Ho. Ikena. Daniel Ho Creations: DHC 80078, 2010.
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ikena/id288690522
- 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
- Book:
- Elbert, Samuel H., and Noelani K. Mahoe. Na Mele O Hawai'i Nei: 101 Hawaiian Songs. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1970.
- http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/
- Book:
- Kaeppler, Adrienne. Hula Pahu: Hawaiian Drum Dances, Volume I: Ha'a and Hula Pahu, Sacred Movements. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1993.
- Book:
- Stillman, Amy Ku'uleialoha. Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula 'Ala'apapa. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.
- 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/
- 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)
- Audio:
- Spirit of Micronesia. Saydisc: CD-SDL 414, 1995.
- http://www.saydisc.com/ (Pacific)
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spirit-of-micronesia/id423356983
- 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.
- http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/AustralianPacific/
- Website:
- Jane's Oceania Home Page—Dedicated to music and culture of Oceania
- http://www.janeresture.com/index.htm
- Internet Keyword Search:
- Popular Artists from Micronesia
- Ozeky
- ReChuuk