ISBN:
9780511627255
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture 20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
899/.4
Keywords:
Alltag, Brauchtum
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Folk poetry, Tikopia / History and criticism
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Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) / Social life and customs
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Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) / Rites and ceremonies
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Folk poetry, Tikopia
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Musik
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Volksmusik
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Literatur
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Polynesien
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Tikopia
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Tikopia
;
Literatur
;
Tikopia
;
Musik
;
Polynesien
;
Volksmusik
Abstract:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511627255
URL:
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