Modern Music of the Torres Strait
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