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