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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics, and Popular Music in the Pacific
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Philip Hayward
By (author) Philip Hayward
SeriesCultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Category/GenreFolk and traditional
Rock and Pop
ISBN/Barcode 9780304700509
ClassificationsDewey:306.484
Audience
Undergraduate
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 1 August 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia. Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Reviews

"Through the 1990s, Philip Hayward has been the driving force behind popular music studies in Australia...[This publication is] a significant milestone and achievement....The strength of the collection lies in the layering up of a sense of community of inquiry, and the fostering of an intertextual head of steam, grounded in a set of empirical, rather than theoretical, concerns."--The Contemporary Pacific