Moyle, Richard M.

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Interview conducted 1 April 2021 with Professor Richard Moyle, ethnomusicologist specialising in Pacific music and cultures. Moyle discusses the Archive's history, his academic career and decades of research in the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia.

Scope and Contents Collection comprises field notes, correspondence, research paper proofs, transcriptions of songs and chants, maps and island histories relating to the ethnography and ethnomusicology of Samoa, Cook Islands, Lau, Tonga, Niue and Hawaii. The collection also includes the transcriptions and translations of folk tales and a collection of photographs, negatives and film footage taken by Moyle during his fieldwork, and a small amount of collected ephemera. The field notebooks contain indexes to...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises audio field recordings and radio dubbings of music and oral histories from the Lau Islands in Fiji, part of a preliminary analysis of Lau music, in particular of the song types found on Lakeba and Vanua Balavu. The field work for this study was carried out at Lakeba from June 14 to July 1, 1977, in Tubou, Levuka, Waciwaci, Yadrana, Vakanō, and Nasaqalau villages, and at Vanua Balavu from July 2-11 in Avea, Mavana, Mualevu, Muamua, Malaka, Sawana and Uruone villages....

Scope and Contents The collection comprises a combination of field recordings, broadcast recordings, wax cylinder recording copies and commercial releases made between 1966-1983.Transcripts were supplied by the performers or by fellow villagers. Further information, and original transcripts are available at Special Collections in the 'Richard Moyle field research papers' collection. Some in-house transcriptions, for some items, are present in the Collection File. Please contact the repository for...

Scope and Contents Material collected as part of a pilot study for the project, "A Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music", funded jointly by UNESCO, The Institute for Polynesian Studies (Hawai'i) and the University of Auckland. Recordings were made by Richard Moyle of the University of Auckland and Fifita Talagi, the Cultural Projects Coordinator of Niue, from September-October 1984 in Niue, followed by recordings made by Richard Moyle and Dorothy Puheketama in Auckland, New Zealand for the final month of the...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises audio recordings made by Richard Moyle in Tonga during the period 1973-1977. The recordings present a survey of traditional Tongan music from some sixty-two villages throughout Tonga, and the first ethnomusicological study of Tonga’s oral traditions. Recordings are arranged by source and appear in chronological order. Field Recordings, the primary material made by Moyle, are arranged by island group. The Tonga Broadcasting Commission recordings were made available to...

Scope and Contents Transcription of 184 Samoan popular songs originally collected by Brother Herman while under house arrest in Pago Pago as an enemy alien, 1940-1945. The arrival of American military forces and the country’s first radio station influenced local musical and poetic styles, and local performers were soon recording their own compositions reflecting the new influences. Herman used his enforced confinement to write down the lyrics of these songs as they were broadcast, including many original...