South Sea Island songs

Subject: South Sea Island songs
From:
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 02:02 AM

I have been collecting folksongs in the islands to the north of Australia, and quite a number of the old songs go to tunes of the South Sea Island style, those old Hawaiian hula things. The Tamure tune for instance was one that I collected to different words, and I would like to know something about the origin of this and other similar songs. I am publishing some small books for the schools up there as they have no way of getting hold of their traditional songs in print. Are there any online sources of these tunes, or is anyone an expert in this rather old-fashioned style of music that is so unfashionable today.None of our local music shops have any collections of this type, nor do they know of any.

Ron Edwards

Subject: RE: South Sea Island songs
From: SeanM
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 06:30 PM

Refresh, 'cause this would be kinda cool to know...

M

Subject: RE: South Sea Island songs
From: Micca
Date: 27 Jun 00 - 07:53 PM

Ron, I am interested in the music of the South Pacific, esp Hawaii and Rarotonga and have some recordings, not many, if you have names of songs/tunes I might be able to mail you a tape....send me a private message and I will see what I can do...

Subject: RE: South Sea Island songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 01:36 AM

Wow! Thanks for coming here, Ron, this is something I think a lot of us would be interested in! If you join us, it's free, you can send and receive personal messages, on the Mudcat. If you do, I would suggest asking Billy the Bus if he knows of any info..he is on an island off of New Zealand.

Please share with us what you can, this sounds really interesting.

Thanks,

kat