In Māori culture, music is inseparable from language, genealogy, and the relationship between people and land. Songs and chants do not function merely as artistic expression: they carry memory, transmit history, and reinforce the networks of ancestry known as whakapapa. For …
Polynesian music cannot be understood as a single unified tradition, nor as a distant cultural curiosity. It belongs to a vast constellation of island societies spread across the Pacific Ocean, from Hawai‘i to Samoa, from Tonga to Tahiti and the …
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia maintain some of the world’s oldest continuous cultural traditions. Music is not separate from life within many of these communities: it is embedded in law, ceremony, kinship, memory, and relationship to Country. …