Talofa lava!

This work also enables Viking to reissue the music on digital streaming platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. Thus far, around 200 Viking albums have been made available again through this process, including 105 albums of Pacific music.

Pacific GLAM sector are naturally gifted and masters at enabling their communities. We don’t need written policies or extensive research to do this work because we are the community.

Even though the experience evoked strong feelings of disconnect, detachment, and distance, the subject still echoes the mana and story of the object.