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Article: Panpipes across the Ocean: a Production of Popular Tunes from the South Pacific Islands.(Sound Recording Review)
- Article from:
- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Panpipes across the Ocean: A Production of Popular Tunes from the South Pacific Islands. Suva: Newsounds Oceania Studio; Oceania Centre for Arts & Culture, University of the South Pacific, 2002. E-mail
. Compact disc. US$1600.
Contemporary musicians in the Pacific, as in many other parts of the world, are often exploring ways of combining elements of their traditional musics with those of the West. Whether as an attempt to express the complex cultural mixtures of contemporary life or as a marketing ploy to tap into the seemingly lucrative world music scene, such experiments encourage new approaches to musical expression. In the compact disc under review here, a ...