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

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

Papua New Guinea (Melanesia)


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

Hawaii (Polynesia)


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)

Kirbati (Micronesia)


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