Doc.371, 'Dances and songs'
Authors
Roth, Rayson K.
Publication Date
2013-03Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
Metadata
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Roth, R. K. (2013). Doc.371, 'Dances and songs' [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244316
Description
.wav and .mp3 versions of audio file
Abstract
Recording of dances (meke) & songs, 15 min 31 seconds.
1) This is a lakalaka, a Tongan dance done by men and women of Sawana which is a Tongan settlement adjoining the Fijian village of lomaloma, Lau. Recorded at Tubou, on Lakeba Island, July 1955. Actuality record (record made during the actual performance of a normal ceremony) by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. [0.00 - 1.47]
2) This is a tafi, a Tongan dance done by the women of the senior ?matangale, the ?vuani ?rewa of Lau. Recorded at Tubou, on Lakeba Island, July 1955. Actuality record (record made during the actual performance of a normal ceremony) by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. [1.47 - 2.33]
3) This is a ma'ulu'ulu, a Samoan dance done by the Fijians of Nasagalau, a village on the island of Lakeba, Lau. Recorded at Tubou, on Lakeba Island, July 1955. Actuality record (record made during the actual performance of a normal ceremony) by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. [2.33 - 5.11]
4) This a song accompanying a Tongan dance, lakalaka, done in Suva by men and women of Lau on the occasion of the Royal visit to Fiji, December 1953. Actuality record (record made during the actual performance of a normal ceremony) by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. [5.11 - 11.31] Fijian music, songs and dances, recorded by George Kingsley Roth in Fiji in the 1950s. Most of the material is original and was recorded in the field or at the studio of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission Suva. Some tracks are copies of recordings made by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission or the BBC.
Keywords
Roth, Fiji, music, song, dances
Spatial Coverage
Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Lau Group, Lakeba Island; Tubou Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Viti Levu; Suva
Temporal Coverage
December 1953 + July 1955
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This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244316
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
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