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Sound tracks of the Black Pacific: Music, identity and resilience in Australian South Sea Islander communities

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Australian South Sea Islanders, the descendants of the Melanesians from (primarily) Vanuatu and Solomon Islands who were ‘blackbirded’ to Queensland and New South Wales (1847-1904) for their labour, have, through music and dance practices, come to identify as part of a global black ‘transnation’. Studies of the ‘Black Atlantic’ point both to the transnational character of slavery and the import...
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2018
Location:
Melanesia
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Journal article
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Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
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University of Canterbury Library
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