Oceania

Presentations

Styles, instruments, and musicians from Oceania

Bibliography

"Fiji: A Digital Ethnography." [http://fiji.union.edu/section.php?section=meke] accessed 11/20/10.

"Fiji Island Facts" [http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/fiji-islands-facts/] accessed 11/20/2010.

Kaeppler, Adrienne L. and J. W. Love, eds. 1998. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.

“Kava Kava Root” [http://www.kava.com/] Accessed 11/22/2010.

Malm, William P. 1977. Music Culture of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia. Second edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Saumaiwai, Chris. 1994. “Urban Fijian Musical Attitudes and Ideals: Has Intercultural Contact through Music and Dance Changed Them?” In Music–Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions. Margaret J Kartomi and Stephen Blum, eds. Basel, Switzerland: Gordon and Breach.

Wilford, John Noble. 2007. “First Chickens in Americas Were Brought from Polynesia.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/05chic.html?_r=1] Accessed 11/19/2010.

Discography

Kaeppler, Adrienne L. and J. W. Love, eds. 1998. CD Accompaniment to The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 9. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.

Music of Marginal Polynesia: Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, Tuvalu. JVC World Sounds. JVC VICG-5276.

Video Links

Fijian lali (log drum) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkVbwCiwPs]

Meke with spears. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qea7BNLlSg]

Vekemalolo (seated men's meke) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supPPZLLIG4]

Sea-sea (women's meke) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ri6Vt-hwF8]

General Links on Oceania

Polynesian Cultural Center [http://www.polynesia.com/]

Island Beats - Website Devoted to Oceanic Music [http://www.islandbeats.com/]

Melanesian Music [http://www.melanesianmusic.org/]

Academy of Hawaiian Arts [http://www.academyofhawaiianarts.org/]

Australia Council for the Arts [http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/]

CD - Spirit of Micronesia [http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Micronesia-Various-Artists/dp/B00000453T]

Youtube Videos from the Oceania Powerpoint

Didgeridoo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXjpWUDvO4]

Aboriginal Song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFVTsZtqbQ]

Susap [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnMXzCGNPSo]

Kiribati Group Song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmwFawMP4sU]

Mele Hula [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Av3J1QOcc&feature=related]

Hula Pahu [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8oWS9mgo4]

Steel String Guitar [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5d5vSwl5J8]

Bruddah Iz [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cAbHGZ6F8M]