Research Catalog

Title

Tikopia songs : poetic and musical art of a Polynesian people of the Solomon Islands / Raymond Firth with Mervyn McLean.

Author

Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

McLean, Mervyn.

Description

xvii, 307 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 20

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 20.

Subject

• Tikopia language > Texts
• Folk poetry, Tikopia > History and criticism
• Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) > Social life and customs
• Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) > Rites and ceremonies
• Folk poetry, Tikopia
• Tikopia language
• Folk songs
• Tikopia (people)
• Folk songs, Tikopian > History and criticism
• Ethnomusicology
• Music and anthropology
• Music and folklore
• Folk poetry, Tikopian > History and criticism
• Polynesien
• Solomon Islands
• Tikopia (Solomon Islands) > Social life and customs
• Tikopia (Solomon Islands) > Rites and ceremonies

Genre/Form

• Texts.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-302) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The nature of Tikopia song -- 2. Tikopia poetic language and imagery -- 3. Funeral and mourning as musical occasions -- 4. Dance and song -- 5. The structure of Tikopia music -- 6. Dance songs of everyday life -- 7. Songs of the sea and of travel -- 8. Eulogies and farewells -- 9. Songs of protest and criticism -- 10. Songs of erotic arousal and sex antagonism -- 11. Laments and funeral dirges -- 12. Songs on historical and mythic themes, and of ritual quality.

ISBN

• 0521391296
• 9780521391290
• 0521398126
• 9780521398121

LCCN

89071158

OCLC

• ocm20796621
• 20796621
• SCSB-1913437

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library