Moyle, Richard M.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection comprises 17 audio field recordings and 4 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....

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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 Collection comprises 17 audio field recordings and 4 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....

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The collection comprises a combination of field recordings, broadcast recordings, wax cylinder recording copies, transcripts and commercial releases made between 1966-1983.

Transcripts were supplied by the performers themselves or by fellow villagers. Further information, and original transcripts are available at Special Collections in the 'Richard Moyle field research papers' collection.

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...