The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9074961 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Diettrich (0000-0002-4696-2315, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-115 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pacific History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3344 • E-ISSN: 1469-9605 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00223344.2022.2143332 |
| OpenAlex | W4311745920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article explores the persistence of local, sung modes of history-making in Oceania. It examines the importance of song forms as temporal modes of history, and the implication of these practices for approaches to local histories. The article first explores song within a critical overview of past scholarship, examining work that focuses on sung histories and their temporal meaning. It then discusses an example of local history-making in a genre of rhythmic recitation called itang from the islands of Chuuk, in Micronesia. I suggest that itang recitations are not only a valued mode of positioning local history in Chuuk, but the recitation form has implications for considering the Deep Time of cultural expressions in the Pacific. This study asks how a fuller integration of sung histories within scholarship might further localize the practice of history in the Pacific
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Genealogy · Local History · Meaning (existential) · Period (music) · Persistence (discontinuity) · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |