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Hikaru Koide recordings

 Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/38

Polyfest recordings

 Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2024/01

Richard Moyle Samoa recordings

 Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/54
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910 - 1983

Samoan popular songs collected by Brother Herman Seringer and transcribed by Richard Moyle.

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2014/14
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...
Dates: 1967 - 1967

Samoan Studies Institute, American Samoa Community College videorecordings.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2009/5
Scope and Contents The collection consists of unedited videorecordings of Samoan language, culture, oratory, music, dance, oral histories, political structure, and social life and customs, compiled by the Samoan Studies Institute, American Samoa Community College. The materials are organised by series based on subject, using titles provided by the Institute. The collection was purchased from the Institute in 2008, along with a number of commercially produced videorecordings of the Institute which...
Dates: 1997 - 2005