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Papers by Richard Moyle
Readers of this review should be aware of my prejudices and shortcomings as a reviewer. When Rich... more Readers of this review should be aware of my prejudices and shortcomings as a reviewer. When Richard Moyle, the author of this work, was planning his dictionary of Takuu, he thoughtfully contacted me for permission to use some features of a dictionary that I compiled for the Sikaiana language, a Polynesian language closely related to Takuu.1 I wrote it about 25 years ago, but I have retained some fluency in the language. Takuu has many cognates with Sikaiana and even after being away from the Sikaiana language for over 20 years, I can understand much of the Takuu language presented in this dictionary. I found Moyle’s dictionary to be an excellent resource not only about the Takuu language but also about Takuu culture. Moreover for the people themselves, the dictionary is a heritage resource, recording many cultural practices that are likely to change in coming years. Moyle’s dictionary is developed from 3300 headwords that he compiled from over 20 months of ethnographic research bet...
The Journal of Pacific History
Journal of the Polynesian Society
This essay examines the canoe on the Polynesian Outlier of Takū, both as an artefact enduring in ... more This essay examines the canoe on the Polynesian Outlier of Takū, both as an artefact enduring in memory and existing as an ongoing survival necessity. It is in part from the remembered canoe-mythologised, and vaunted in songs ancient and modern-that Takū take their self-identity and from the existing canoe that they enjoy ongoing vitality, for, without the canoe, Takū could not have been colonised, nor could contemporary life be sustained nor the future contemplated. In adopting this perspective, I rely principally on the evidence of oral tradition as spoken and sung, but refer where appropriate to the somewhat meagre historical printed record. I expand on the place of the canoe to identify elements of Takū society influenced by the manufacture and performance of this one artefact that occupies much of a man's time, and which is celebrated more frequently and enduringly than any other in the performing arts by the entire adult community. The Oceanic canoe has long been the object of academic study, from voyaging to design and performance capacity (e.g., the summaries in
Journal of the Polynesian Society, Mar 1, 2003
Review(s) of: Music and dance of aboriginal Australia and the South pacific: The effect of docume... more Review(s) of: Music and dance of aboriginal Australia and the South pacific: The effect of documentation on the living tradition, by A. M. Moyle (ed), Oceania Monograph 41, University of Sydney, 1992, pp iv + 286.
Review(s) of: Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania, by Atherton, M, The Col... more Review(s) of: Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania, by Atherton, M, The Collection in the Australian Museum. Bern: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2010. 164 pp., app., index, photos, refs. SFR47.00 (paper).
Choice Reviews Online, 1990
This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehen... more This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehensive published account of the music of western Polynesia's largest island group. Combining extensive fieldwork and exhaustive coverage of historical sources and museum holdings, the book features a thorough examination of songs, song texts and translations, dances, children's songs, and musical instruments.
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1990
The Galpin Society Journal, 1977
... 9 Of all the uses of the lali slit drum in Fiji, the announcement of the lifting of taboos af... more ... 9 Of all the uses of the lali slit drum in Fiji, the announcement of the lifting of taboos after a funeral appears to be the only one which, in Tonga, is performed on a different instrument."' Justification for classifying tutu and tukipotu as musical phenomena ... Ko-e pi a Le-lu-a Lelua's pJ ...
The Galpin Society Journal, 1976
The Galpin Society Journal, 1975
The Galpin Society Journal, 1997
The Galpin Society Journal, 1992
Readers of this review should be aware of my prejudices and shortcomings as a reviewer. When Rich... more Readers of this review should be aware of my prejudices and shortcomings as a reviewer. When Richard Moyle, the author of this work, was planning his dictionary of Takuu, he thoughtfully contacted me for permission to use some features of a dictionary that I compiled for the Sikaiana language, a Polynesian language closely related to Takuu.1 I wrote it about 25 years ago, but I have retained some fluency in the language. Takuu has many cognates with Sikaiana and even after being away from the Sikaiana language for over 20 years, I can understand much of the Takuu language presented in this dictionary. I found Moyle’s dictionary to be an excellent resource not only about the Takuu language but also about Takuu culture. Moreover for the people themselves, the dictionary is a heritage resource, recording many cultural practices that are likely to change in coming years. Moyle’s dictionary is developed from 3300 headwords that he compiled from over 20 months of ethnographic research bet...
The Journal of Pacific History
Journal of the Polynesian Society
This essay examines the canoe on the Polynesian Outlier of Takū, both as an artefact enduring in ... more This essay examines the canoe on the Polynesian Outlier of Takū, both as an artefact enduring in memory and existing as an ongoing survival necessity. It is in part from the remembered canoe-mythologised, and vaunted in songs ancient and modern-that Takū take their self-identity and from the existing canoe that they enjoy ongoing vitality, for, without the canoe, Takū could not have been colonised, nor could contemporary life be sustained nor the future contemplated. In adopting this perspective, I rely principally on the evidence of oral tradition as spoken and sung, but refer where appropriate to the somewhat meagre historical printed record. I expand on the place of the canoe to identify elements of Takū society influenced by the manufacture and performance of this one artefact that occupies much of a man's time, and which is celebrated more frequently and enduringly than any other in the performing arts by the entire adult community. The Oceanic canoe has long been the object of academic study, from voyaging to design and performance capacity (e.g., the summaries in
Journal of the Polynesian Society, Mar 1, 2003
Review(s) of: Music and dance of aboriginal Australia and the South pacific: The effect of docume... more Review(s) of: Music and dance of aboriginal Australia and the South pacific: The effect of documentation on the living tradition, by A. M. Moyle (ed), Oceania Monograph 41, University of Sydney, 1992, pp iv + 286.
Review(s) of: Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania, by Atherton, M, The Col... more Review(s) of: Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania, by Atherton, M, The Collection in the Australian Museum. Bern: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2010. 164 pp., app., index, photos, refs. SFR47.00 (paper).
Choice Reviews Online, 1990
This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehen... more This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehensive published account of the music of western Polynesia's largest island group. Combining extensive fieldwork and exhaustive coverage of historical sources and museum holdings, the book features a thorough examination of songs, song texts and translations, dances, children's songs, and musical instruments.
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1990
The Galpin Society Journal, 1977
... 9 Of all the uses of the lali slit drum in Fiji, the announcement of the lifting of taboos af... more ... 9 Of all the uses of the lali slit drum in Fiji, the announcement of the lifting of taboos after a funeral appears to be the only one which, in Tonga, is performed on a different instrument."' Justification for classifying tutu and tukipotu as musical phenomena ... Ko-e pi a Le-lu-a Lelua's pJ ...
The Galpin Society Journal, 1976
The Galpin Society Journal, 1975
The Galpin Society Journal, 1997
The Galpin Society Journal, 1992