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- Creator
- recorded by David Fanshawe
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- Austronesian (Other), Multiple languages
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Nonesuch, [2003]
- ℗1981
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm52254651
- Credits
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- Performed by native musicians from Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Western Samoa, and Tahiti
- Songs, chants, and dances sung or played on traditional instruments.
- Originally released in 1981 (H-72088).
- Program notes and partial translations of songs in English (20 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Recorded by David Fanshawe in Oceania 1978-1979.
- Sung in unidentified languages, presumably Rarotongan, Tongan, Fijian, Kiribati (Gilbertese), Samoan, Tahitian, and other Austronesian languages.
- Cook Islands. Drum dance (2:42) ; Tapa cloth beating (0:56) ; Mire (1:57) ; Imenetuki (2:22) -- Tonga. Tau'a'alo (3:25) ; Faikava love song (2:43) ; Octopus fishing (1:48) ; Fangufangu nose flute (0:48) ; Muli tu pe (1:44) -- Fiji. Male fan dance (2:00) ; Club dance Meke Iwau (2:14) ; Vakamalolo mixed sitting dance (2:18) ; New Year celebrations (0:53) -- Solomon Islands. Pan pipes rereo taba (1:29) ; Pan pipe ensemble (1:42) ; Pan pipes and night roar (1:17) ; Spirit song U'ula (2:57) ; Shell money making (1:28) ; Women's song Kukuburi sifoa (1:15) -- Gilbert Islands, Kiribati. Te kamei (1:20) ; Te kawawa (1:17) ; Toddy cutting song (1:20) -- Western Samoa. Sasa (3:23) ; Conche shell horn (0:50) ; Tagi (1:08) ; Ma'ulu Ulu (3:08) -- Tahiti. Imene tarava (3:14)