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The album of Rarotongan songs featured a painting by Kase Jackson, a well-known artist. [14] In 1973, Siren Songs Of The South Seas, credited to Pepe & Her Rarotongans, was released on the Olympic Records label. [15]
One unique quality of Polynesian music (it has become almost a cliché) is the use of the sustained 6th chord in vocal music, though typically the 6th chord is not used in religious music. Traditional songs and hymns are referred to as imene metua (lit. hymn of the parent/ancestor). Traditional dance is the most prominent art form of the Cook ...
Imene reo metua: a Cook Islands / Rarotongan term; (literally 'hymn/s of the parent/ancestor'): they are formal traditional songs with tune and harmony, which are distinguished from the imene tuki style of the Cook Islands which are less formal, often grunted verses with nonsense syllables included for rhythmic effect. [1]
[22] Aside from the Ura dance and its components such as the korero and kaparima, there are several other genres of music and dance in the Cook Islands including dance dramas (peu tupuna), religious pageants (nuku), formal chants (pe'e), celebratory chants ('ute), and polyphonic choral music ('imene tapu). [18]
Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. London: Henry S. King & Co. William Wyatt Gill (1880). Historical sketches of savage life in Polynesia; with illustrative clan songs. Wellington: George Didsbury, Government Printer. Jon Jonassen (1981). Cook Islands Legends. Cook Islands: The Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.
He also released Romantic Rarotonga and Love Songs of Polynesia. [6] In 1968, Viking Records issued the compilation Action Rarotonga!, which featured his group, Will Crummer and The Royal Rarotongans, as well as Pepe and The Rarotongans. [7] [8] Crummer performed in Tahiti, and Hawaii where he was offered a residency by a Hawaiian promoter.
Kalani Pe'a Merrie Monarch 2019. Popular music in Polynesia is a mixture of more traditional music made with indigenous instruments such as the nose flute in Tonga, and the distinctive wooden drums of the Rarotonga, and local artists creating music with contemporary instruments and rhythms, and also a blend of both.
"George" is a song by New Zealand rock band Headless Chickens, released as the lead single from their third studio album, Greedy, in 1994. Charting as a double A-side with the Eskimos in Egypt mix of their 1991 song "Cruise Control", [2] the single reached number one in the band's native New Zealand for four weeks in 1994 and 1995 and received a gold certification from the Recording Industry ...