Bounty chords : music, dance and cultural heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands /

Hayward, Philip,

Bounty chords : music, dance and cultural heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands / Philip Hayward. - viii, 248 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245) and index.

Summary chronology of the Bounty mutiny and the establishment of the Pitcairn and Norfolk Island -- Acts in the Theatrum Mundi : The Bounty, Tahiti and the mutiny -- No Erewhon : the first Pitcairn Island settlement -- A home away from home : the establishment of the Pitcairn community on Norfolk Island (1856-1900) -- A community of visitors : music and the Melanesian mission on Norfolk Island -- Re-establishment : Pitcairn Island from 1858 to World War Two -- A time of transition : performance culture on Norfolk Island (1900-1940) -- A dance with history (the re-Polynesianisation of Norfolk Island performance culture) -- Garrison days : Norfolk Island during the Pacific stage of World War Two -- The melodious songs of the blest : locally associated hymns and their role in Norfolk Island culture -- Modernity and diversification : popular music in post-war Norfolk Island -- Larna Acklan's Yung'un : Norfolk Island language and heritage in song -- From cultural emergence to crisis : Pitcairn Island (1945-2005) -- Conclusion - unfolding heritage -- Afterword - engaging in flux : the politics and practice of collaboration. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Music--History and criticism--Norfolk Island
Music--History and criticism--Pitcairn Islands


Norfolk Island--History
Pitcairn Islands--History

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