Travels and travails of music
The history of music, culture and radio in the small island of Fiji by a well -known anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, starts from historical 'moments/ (1937, 1978, 2009) to dispute conventional theories of cultural change and demonstrate the ways that it is not 'music' that travels but the people who use and develop it through amazingly inspired initiatives. An important contribution to the often neglected study of popular music in South Seas island cultures and the significance of radio in an island culture with implications for wider study.
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Travels and travails of music
The history of music, culture and radio in the small island of Fiji by a well -known anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, starts from historical 'moments/ (1937, 1978, 2009) to dispute conventional theories of cultural change and demonstrate the ways that it is not 'music' that travels but the people who use and develop it through amazingly inspired initiatives. An important contribution to the often neglected study of popular music in South Seas island cultures and the significance of radio in an island culture with implications for wider study.
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Travels and travails of music

Travels and travails of music

by Ruth Finnegan
Travels and travails of music

Travels and travails of music

by Ruth Finnegan

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The history of music, culture and radio in the small island of Fiji by a well -known anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, starts from historical 'moments/ (1937, 1978, 2009) to dispute conventional theories of cultural change and demonstrate the ways that it is not 'music' that travels but the people who use and develop it through amazingly inspired initiatives. An important contribution to the often neglected study of popular music in South Seas island cultures and the significance of radio in an island culture with implications for wider study.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158559808
Publisher: Callender Press
Publication date: 07/30/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 120
File size: 145 KB

About the Author

Ruth Finnegan is a celebrated anthropologist and cultural,historian who has publisher shed widely on the down-to-earth ethnography of music.
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