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Music of the Cook Islands - Definition and Overview

Polynesian music
Easter Island
Fiji
French Polynesia: Marquesas and Tahiti
Hawaii
Kiribati
New Zealand: Cook Islands - Maori - Niue - Tokelau
Samoa
Tonga
Tuvalu
Wallis and Futuna

In the Cook Islands, Christian music is extremely popular. Imene tuki and imene metua are forms of unaccompanied vocal music known for a uniquely Polynesian drop in pitch at the end of the phrases, as well as staccato rhythmic outbursts of nonsensical syllables (tuki).

References

  • Linkels, Ad. "The Real Music of Paradise". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp 218-229. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0


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