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Música de Solomon Islands
Melanesian bamboo bands and panpipes of the Solomons, Papua New Guinea kundu drum and sing-sing, Fijian meke, Vanuatu string bands, Kanak kaneka.
Raíces y tradiciones
Traditional music
Traditional Melanesian music in Solomon Islands includes both group and solo vocals, slit-drum and panpipe ensembles. These musical traditions have been extensively described and documented by ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp. Panpipe orchestras, which are well known on Malaita and Guadalcanal use up to ten performers with different instrument, each with unique tunings. During rituals, sometimes up to forty people could be playing a pan flute song together while dancing. The traditional flute music of Solomon Islands was admired by some early European visitors, including the German explorer Carl Ribbe in 1903, who described one song as "rather pleasant".
Música popular
Popular music
In the 1920s bamboo music gained a following in several countries. Bamboo music was made by hitting open-ended bamboo tubes of varying sizes, originally with coconut husks. After American soldiers brought their sandals to the Solomon Islands, these replaced coconut husks by the early 1960s, just as the music began spreading to Papua New Guinea. In the 1950s, Edwin Nanau Sitori composed the song "Walkabout long Chinatown", which was to become popular throughout the Pacific, and has been referred to by the government as the unofficial "national song" of Solomon Islands. Modern Solomon Islander popular music includes various kinds of rock and reggae as well as something known as island music, a guitar and ukulele ensemble format influenced by Polynesian and Christian music. Traditional Melanesian choir singing features heavily in the soundtrack of the film The Thin Red Line, which is set against the backdrop of the Battle for Guadalcanal.
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