Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics and Popular Music in The Pacific

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An anthology of essays on the new syncretic, or "fusion", styles of music of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific region, who have adopted forms of popular music as an expression of their cultural identity. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents About the Authors Acknowledgements Introduction: Beyond the Axis Notes PART I: Music, Identity and Cultural Politics 1 Tjungaringanyi: Aboriginal Rock (1971-91) The traditional-contemporary problem Country and Western, and CAAMA Receiving rock CASM, No Fixed Address and the silent majority Coloured Stone Liminal temporality Culture as rock Fusion Notes 2 He Waiata Na Aotearoa: Maori and Pacific Islander Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand Pacific hybridization Maori reggae and historical rhetoric Biculturalism and its discontents From pop to rock to rap Notes Discography 3 Indigenization and Socio-political Identity in the Kaneka Music of New Caledonia Introduction Indigenization Socio-political and musical factors in the development of kaneka Jémàà: a case study Indigenization as cultural construction Notes Videography Discography 4 Koori Music in Melbourne: Culture, Politics and Certainty Introduction The Koori music network Koori music and its contexts Urban Koori song themes and styles Innovation and creativity Notes Discography 5 Jawaiian Music and Local Cultural Identity in Hawai'i Notes Videography Discography 6 Hula Hits, Local Music and Local Charts: Some Dynamics of Popular Hawaiian Music Hula hits Local music Local charts Conclusions Notes Discography PART II: Music, Commerce and the Media Industries 7 Developments in Papua New Guinea's Popular Music Industry Introduction A brief history of PNG popular music Mediating the music Towards the millennium Notes 8 Questions of Music Copyright in Papua New Guinea Notes Discography 9 Te Wa Whakapaoho i te Reo Irirangi: Some Directions in Maori Radio Music and youth Localism and networking News and sport Current issues Conclusion Glossary Notes 10 A New Tradition: Titus Tilly and the Development of Music Video in Papua New Guinea Context The emergence of PNG music video Productions Notes Videography 11 The Proud Project and the 'Otara Sound': Maori and Polynesian Pop in the Mid-1990s Multicultural noise: Auckland hip-hop Notes Discography PART III: Access to the Mainstream: The Case of Yothu Yindi 12 Yothu Yindi: Context and Significance Notes Discography 13 Culture, Custom and Collaboration: The Production of Yothu Yindi's Treaty' Videos 'Treaty I' 'Treaty II' - The Filthy Lucre Remix 'Treaty I' to 'Treaty II' - changes and criticisms Notes 14 Safe, Exotic and Somewhere Else: Yothu Yindi, Treaty' and the Mediation of Aboriginality Notes 15 Yothu Yindi: Agendas and Aspirations Introduction Yothu Yindi as a product Yothu Yindi as a process Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index