Obsolete CHANT BY VEIKOSO dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v Case study: Fiji =DR5p2xPTUJM

Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo

Monday 12th March 2018 Clock Tower-South, Room 039

TYPES OF FIJIAN KEY FIJIAN DANCE DANCES WORDS 1. i Wau (Club dance) MEKE – Dance

Fijian Meke 2. Meke Iri (Fan dance) SERE – Song 3. Meke ni Turaga (Men’s LAGASERE– To sing (Royal 1954) dance) 4. Meke ni Marama – (Women’s dance) https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=n5iKfR3HQQI 5. Ma’ulu’ulu (mixed VAKATARA – Singers dance) 6. Meke ni Gone MEKE MAWAKA – Old (Children’s dance) dances MEKE VOU – New dances LOTU - Religion

SEASEA

FIJIAN WOMEN MEKE WESI

FIJIAN MEN MEKE LALI

FIJIAN DRUM Key points: • In the past, dancing strongly connected with social structure Old and New and religion functions of • Chiefs offices were invested with audience-focused both prestige and power dance genres in Fiji • Succession to those offices was governed by geneaological rules • Social rank was based on descent from the gods • Societies were pyramidal with the highest chief at the top and common people at the base • White explorers were followed by whalers, sealers and beachcombers • They were followed by white traders and plantation managers, to establish new plantations • Then arrived the missionaries to ‘save’, ‘civilize’ the Banning of ‘heathen natives’ • Many local dances were banned as European Fijian dances explorers thought of such dancers as erotic in appearance • Bure Kalou (Fijian TEMPLE) Fiji's old religion is no longer practiced however old deities are still acknowledged and respected • The spirit house was elevated on a pyramid like BUREKALOU base built with large stones and earth, again a square building with an elongated pyramid like [20]roof with various scented flora planted nearby (Priest’s house) 1. MEKE NI KANA TAMATA

Obsolete 2. MEKE NI VEIQIA dances in Fiji 3. MEKE NI BETE

4. MEKE NI DAUNIVUCU

5. MEKE NI VALU NAGA RITES (Ancient ceremony associated with New Moon/Year) MEKE NI KANA TAMATA

(Cannibalism dance)

MEKE NI VEIQIA

(Tattooing Rites Dance) MEKE NI BETE

(Priest Dance) MEKE NI DAUNIVUCU

(Choreographer’s Dance) MEKE NI VALU

(War Dance) War clubs and Regalia MEKE I WAU

(1800 & 1955) UDREUDRE GRAVE & STONES OF WASAVULU VINAKA VAKALEVU J PACIFIC 110

2.1 Sound of Music

Vaiotausala Natalie Leitulagi Toevai

‘Beating a box for dance accompaniment’, Bairiki village, South Tarawa, , 1978. The Navigator Islands

(Louis-Antoine de Bougainville)

A agi le matagi Agi e, agi e Agi i luga, agi i lalo Agi e folau e • Celebrating 43 years this year • Wednesday 14th to 17th March 2018 / $5 entry fee • Manukau Velodrome/Sports Bowl, Clover Park ASB POLYFEST 2018

https://www.asbpolyfest.co.nz/

• Started in 1976, hosted by Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, Otara • Largest Pacific dance festival in the world After this session you should:

Learning • Understand the importance of Pacific research Objectives • Understand the significance of music to performance

• Be able to define: • Ethnomusicology and its relevance • Musicking • McLean, M. (1972). On Ethnomusicology Research Needs in Oceania. Current Essential Anthropology, 13(1), pp. 141-2.

Readings • Small, C. (1998). Prelude: Music and Musicking. In, Musicking: the meanings of performing and listening, pp. 1-18. • The Centre of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland was established in 1985.

• Pacific Studies – interdisciplinary approach Importance that encompasses more than one branch of of ‘research’ knowledge (i.e. discipline)

• “Data collection, knowledge creation and theorising” is gathering Pacific peoples’ stories (Vaioleti, 2006, p. 22)

• Empowerment rationale – giving value to indigenous voices, perspectives and epistemologies (Wesley-Smith). • Ethnomusicology – the study of music within its cultural context (the connections between music and human culture) Study of • Musicking – to take part in a musical ‘music’ performance in any capacity (i.e. performing, listening, rehearsing or practicing, composing or dancing)

• “…performance does not exist in order to present musical works, but rather, musical works exist in order to give performers something to perform.” (Small, 1998, p. 8). • March 1970 – Archive of Maori and Pacific Music, The University of Auckland Archive of Anthropology Department Maori and • Largest ethnographic sound collection Pacific Music relating to the Pacific https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/a mpm/index.htm • Mission to promote knowledge and understanding of Maori and Pacific music

• Services – Access, Copy, Disseminate, Curate, Restore and Preserve. What is • Instruments considered • Implements “music”? • Chant

• Oratory/Poetry

• Song