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Pacific Islands
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The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the earth's surface and contains the deepest waters in the world. It is also a region with deep musical traditions, too, buffeted by the regular currents of colonists and explorers and now undergoing dramatic changes. You can hear music ranging from ancestral navigational chants and glorious polyphonic singing to laments about nuclear testing. The ethnic cultures of the Pacific can be divided into three main areas - Melanesia, lying mostly south of the equator, Micronesia, north of the equator above it, and Polynesia, spread over a huge area to the east.
Hawaiian and Australian music is also included here because of the similarities in musical origins.
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KEYWORDS: Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, Nafa, Samoa, Lali, Fiji, Pate, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Australia
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