List of Oceanic and Australian folk music traditions

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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely-varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work. Similarly, the term traditions in this context does not connote any strictly-defined criteria. Music scholars, journalists, audiences, record industry individuals, politicians, nationalists and demagogues may often have occasion to address which fields of folk music are distinct traditions based along racial, geographic, linguistic, religious, tribal or ethnic lines, and all such peoples will likely use different criteria to decide what constitutes a "folk music tradition". This list uses the same general categories used by mainstream, primarily English-language, scholarly sources, as determined by relevant statements of fact and the internal structure of works.

These traditions may coincide entirely, partially or not at all with geographic, political, linguistic or cultural boundaries. Very few, if any, music scholars would claim that there are any folk music traditions that can be considered specific to a distinct group of people and with characteristics undiluted by contact with the music of other peoples; thus, the folk music traditions described herein overlap in varying degrees with each other.

[edit] Oceania and Australia

Children at a singsing in Papua New Guinea

An indigenous Australian instrument, the didgeridoo
Country Elements Dance Instrumentation Other topics
Cook Islander [1] imene metua - imene tuki koauau - paatere - purerehua
Easter Islander [2] kauaha - upaupa
Fiji [3] meke i wau - meke iri - meke wesi - seasea - vakamalolo derua - slit drum
Hawaiian [4] hula - kepakepa - mele - oli hula 'ipu - pahu - puniu - rattle
Indigenous Australian [5] didgeridoo songline
Maori [6] haka - poi
Marquesas Islander [7] haka puaka
Marshall Islander [8] Jebua
Papua New Guinea [9] string band garamut - kundu - rattle - sepik - slit drum - susap haus tambaran - singsing
Samoan [10] hiva usu fa'ataupati - ma'ulu'ulu - sasa - siva Samoa lali - logo - nafa - pandanus - pate ali'i - fiafia - tulafale
Solomon Islander [11] panpipe
Tahiti [12] himene tarava 'aparima - 'ote'a slit drum
Tongan [13] action-song - hiva kakala - kava papalangi lakalaka - me'etu'upaki - 'otuhaka - ula conch - lali - nose-flute - tapa faikava - fiafia
Tuvalu [14] fatele

[edit] References

  • Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham (eds.) (2000). Rough Guide to World Music, First edition, London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-636-0. 
  • Manuel, Peter (1988). Popular Musics of the Non-Western World. New York: Oxford University Press. 0195053427. 
  • Philip V. Bohlman; Bruno Nettl, Charles Capwell, Thomas Turino and Isabel K. F. Wong (1997). Excursions in World Music, Second edition, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-230632-8. 
  • Fujie, Linda, James T. Koetting, David P. McAllester, David B. Reck, John M. Schechter, Mark Slobin and R. Anderson Sutton (1992). in Jeff Todd Titon (Ed.): Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples, Second Edition, New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-872602-2. 
  • International Dance Glossary. World Music Central. Retrieved on April 3, 2006.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  2. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  3. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  4. ^ Manuel, Popular Musics, pgs. 237 - 239; Cooper, Mike, "Steel and Slide Hula Baloos", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 56 - 62; Lornell, pgs. 79 - 80; World Music Central
  5. ^ Breen, Marcus, "The Original Songlines" in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 8 - 19
  6. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  7. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  8. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  9. ^ Manuel, Popular Musics, pg. 242; Feld, Stephen, "Bamboo Boogie-Woogie", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 183 - 188
  10. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  11. ^ Feld, Stephen, "Bamboo Boogie-Woogie", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 183 - 188
  12. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  13. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
  14. ^ Linkels, Ad, "The Real Music of Paradise", in the Rough Guide to World Music, pgs. 218 - 229
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