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]