Songs from the Second Float
by Project Muse, Moyle, Richard M.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Geography and history -- Takü society as the locus for musicking -- Religious contexts of music -- Processes of Takü music -- The nature of Takü song -- The nature of Takü dance.
This book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesian community whose geographical isolation, together with a local ban on missionaries and churches, combine to allow its 600 members to maintain a level of trad…
"John Williams was not the first London Missionary Society missionary to Polynesia, but his passion to conquer the whole Pacific region, and resolute belief that he knew better than the Directors in London how this vision might be achieved marked him out as an ambitious and aggr…