Tikopia Songs：Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture)

SirRaymondFirthisoneofthemostdistinguishedBritishanthropologists,andoneinternationallyacclaimed.Hisworkhereformspartofoneofthefullestandmostprofessionalethnographicaccountsbyanyanthropologistofanon-industrialpeople,anaccountwhichextendsovermanyyears.ThisbookisaboutthesongsofaWesternPacificpeople,theTikopia,whonotsolongagolivedentirelyonasmallremoteislandoftheSolomons.Theirsongsvaryfromlivelydancechantstomournfulfunerallaments.Allarenoveltowesternears.Thebookprovidesabout100examples,intextandtranslation.Italsodiscussestherelationofthesongstothesociallifeofthepeople,anditincludesananalysisofthestructureoftheirmusic,byMervynMcLean,anotedmusicologist.