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Singing and Survival - The Music of Easter Island (Paperback)
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Singing and Survival - The Music of Easter Island (Paperback)
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An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing
and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people
of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage. Easter
Island (or Rapanui), known for the iconic headstones (moai) that
dot the island landscape, has a remarkable and enduring presence in
global popular culture where it has been portrayed as a place of
mystery and fascination, and as a case study in societal collapse.
These portrayals often overlook the remarkable survival of the
Rapanui people who rebounded from a critically diminished
population of just 110 people in the late nineteenth century to
what is now a vibrant community where indigenous language and
cultural practices have been preserved for future generations. This
cultural revival has drawn on a diversity of historical and
contemporary influences: indigenous heritage, colonial and
missionary influences from South America, and cultural imports from
other Polynesian islands, as well as from tourism and global
popular culture. The impact of these influences can be perceived in
the island's contemporary music culture. This book provides a
comprehensive overview of Easter Island music, with individual
chapters devoted to the various streams of cultural influence from
which the Rapanui people have drawn to rebuild and reinforce their
music, their performances, their language and their presence in the
world. In doing so, it provides a counterpoint to deficit
discourses of collapse, destruction and disappearance to which the
Rapanui people have historically been subjected.
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