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Includes hymns, laments, dance songs, chants, war songs and a wedding song. Modern Island music is played with instruments such as guitars and ukuleles. Production Details CD 124mm x 142mm x 10m...

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Includes hymns, laments, dance songs, chants, war songs and a wedding song. Modern Island music is played with instruments such as guitars and ukuleles.

Production Details
  • CD
  • 124mm x 142mm x 10mm
  • Released 1981
  • ISBN 9780855756482
Track List

1. Samoan-style hymns
2. Three Taibobo chants
3. A nonsense song
4. The story of Iruam
5. Ten songs from Abhi buya cycle
6. Three dance songs from Badu; boat song, driver's lament and wedding song

  • modern song
  • song in the old style
  • modern song
  • modern song
  • traditional lament
  • traditional song
  • song in modern style
  • traditional chant
  • Papuan badara dance
  • and modern song
About the cover

Cover image: Tubular drum, Mer Island, 2017.

Photographer Andrew Turner

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