Bounty Chords

Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands

• Author(s): Philip Hayward,
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0861966783
  ISBN_13: 9780861966783
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Oceania , Music / General , Performing Arts / Dance / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Physical , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

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