Tikopia Songs : Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
ISBN-10
0521032059
ISBN-13
9780521032056
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 14th, 2006
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
491 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.10 x 1.70 cms
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This book shows how the poetry and music of a Polynesian people, the Tikopia, can have an intimate relation with their social life.
Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific people, the Tikopia, who not so long ago lived entirely on a small remote island of the Solomons. Their songs vary from lively dance chants to mournful funeral laments. All are novel to western ears. The book provides about 100 examples, in text and translation. It also discusses the relation of the songs to the social life of the people, and it includes an analysis of the structure of their music, by Mervyn McLean, a noted musicologist.
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