Tikopia Songs : Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
Book Details
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
KSh 10,600.00
Currently unavailable
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
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.
Get Tikopia Songs by Raymond Firth at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has 328 pages.
Customers Who Bought This Also Bought
Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education, Volume II
KSh 30,950.00
Latin Real Book (C Version)
KSh 11,350.00
Rhythms Of Resistance
KSh 5,050.00
Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education
KSh 8,650.00
A Set of Chinese Folk Songs
KSh 2,500.00
The Voice of Kenedougou
KSh 4,300.00
Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
KSh 6,400.00
Critical Themes in World Music
KSh 27,900.00
Hip-Hop within and without the Academy
KSh 9,850.00
Made in Puerto Rico
KSh 30,950.00
Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan
KSh 4,500.00
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet''s Chile
KSh 13,000.00
More by Raymond Firth
We the Tikopia
KSh 55,700.00
Symbols
KSh 37,800.00
We, the Tikopia
KSh 11,450.00
Malay Fishermen
KSh 55,200.00
Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Routledge Revivals)
KSh 8,850.00
Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals)
KSh 37,800.00
Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals)
KSh 8,200.00
Malay Fishermen
KSh 9,500.00
Tikopia Songs
KSh 21,800.00
Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
KSh 8,900.00
Symbols
KSh 11,150.00
Primitive Polynesian Economy
KSh 9,600.00
