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	Tonga - Music
		Traditional music is preserved (though how faithfully we can only guess) in the set pieces performed at royal and noble weddings and funerals, and in the song sung during the traditional ceremony of apology, the lou-ifi.
		The music is melodic and minor key; it serves as background to the dancers.
		Music is often heard in Tongan towns and villages, but it is usually music from Radio Tonga.
	www.explore-tonga.com /Music-96.html (978 words)

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		A personal crisis and the constant barrage of touring would have derailed many music legends.
		Instead, Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gahan conjures his personal demons and lays his heart bare, and what he produces is a collection of stunning, evocative, and introspective musical memoirs.
	music.download.com /2001-1_32-0.html (855 words)

	Tonga Music Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Music among the Ba Tonga is highly recognised as not only a mode for personal expression but also a means of communication between members of the community.
		This year the music festival was again co-hosted with a traditional Tonga Woman beauty pageant that reflects on the traditional dressing of a Tonga woman.
		The promotion of upcoming Tonga artistes and other cultural activities, which may develop Tonga music and culture, requires concerted effort by all those who care for not only the Tonga people but also the holistic development of Zambia and its many ethnic groups.
	www.thezambian.com /tmf (929 words)

	Tonga - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Tonga became a British protected state under a Treaty of Friendship on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king.
		Tonga's education system is free and mandatory for all children up to age twelve, with very nominal fees for secondary education, and foreign-funded scholarships for post-secondary education.
		Tonga's economy is characterized by a large nonmonetary sector and a heavy dependence on remittances from the half of the country's population that lives abroad, chiefly in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/o/n/Tonga.html (2339 words)

	Tonga on the 'NET - Island Snapshot 970213
		The Tonga Chronicle reports five chinese were granted naturalisation by the new Naturalisation scheme and visa applications at the Immigration Department.
		WECO Tonga Ltd, sometimes trading as South Pacific Engineering Services Ltd, was placed in Receivership by the Bank of Tonga under a floating charge, taking over the whole of the assets of the company.
		The annual music festival of the Tonga National Music Association is to be expanded to three weeks this year, from June 15-July 4 to provide more opportunities for more competitors and more listening opportunities for audiences.
	www.tongatapu.net.to /tonga/news/briefs/ss970213.htm (717 words)

	Tonga Economy, Tonga People, Tonga Culture and Flag
		Royal music is a different genre in itself which is preserved for specific occasions and has different types of music to commemorate different occasions be it weddings or funerals or even apologies.
		Tonga's chief source of income is derived from the remitment received from Tonga's expatriate community.
		The other fact about the economy in Tonga is that it is largely concentrated in the hands of the nobles and the royalty.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/tonga-economy-people-culture-flag.html (524 words)

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		Academic courses surveying the music of Asia and of Africa and the Middle East are cross-listed with anthropology and attempt to strike a balance between readings that focus on musical structure and performance practice and those that emphasize the roles and functions of music in society and the training and status of musicians.
		The Center espouses the view that music is a world-wide phenomenon, and that the attaining of a global perspective in music is a prerequisite for becoming a professional musician.
		Musics of East Africa and the Near East; urban ethnomusicology; historical ethnomusicology; music and ritual.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/EthnoMusicology/Archive/Survey.prog (14264 words)

	Tonga on the 'NET - Island Snapshot 971030
		The King said that Tonga was fortunate to remain in peace and expressed the belief that God had blessed all to mark the ceremony in His honour.
		Tevita Tonga Mohenoa Puloka, minister in charge of Nukunuku District, Free Wesleyan Church, explain to the gathering that a similar service to held at 100 day intervals throughout the remainder of the second millennium as directed by His Majesty.
		In Tonga, he added, Interpol assists with checks of arriving foreigners and those seeking entry visas, as well as cooperating with all member countries in tracking drug traffickers and other criminals on the run.
	www.tongatapu.net.to /tonga/news/briefs/ss971030.htm (988 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Tonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific consisting of 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited, and is divided into three main groups andndash; Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu, which together cover an 800-kilometre (500 miles)-long northandndash;south line.
		The temperature increases from 23 Â°C to 27 Â°C (74 Â°F to 80 Â°F), and the annual rainfall is from 1700 to 2970 millimetres (67 to 117 in) as one moves from Tongatapu in the south to the more northerly islands closer to the Equator.
		*Tonga is famous for being the location where Fletcher Christian forced William Bligh into an open boat during the mutiny on the HMS Bounty (1789).
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/tonga (2886 words)

	SFSU School of Music and Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Jasmine Isle; Music of the Javanese Gamelan.
		Morocco I; Music of Islam and Sufism in Morocco.
		Music of the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, Africa.
	www.sfsu.edu /~smd/music/world_music_catalogue.html (2429 words)

	Polynesian Music
		The early music of Polynesia was composed of rhythm instruments and vocals; they comprise mainly chants without any harmonic structure and without any oriental or occidental influence.
		Throughout Tonga, traditional music has been preserved in the set pieces performed at royal and noble weddings and funerals, as well as in the song sung during the traditional ceremony of apology, the 'lou-ifi'.
		Also important in Polynesian musical culture is dance, both to accompany "action songs" such as the hula and the 'aparima' of Tahiti, or in the signature seated-dance styles such as Western Samoa's 'ma'ulu'ulu'.
	www.janesoceania.com /polynesia_music/index.htm (1662 words)

	Tonga - Gurupedia
		Tonga is an archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean, about a third of the way between
		Tonga became a British protected state under a Treaty of Friendship on
		Tonga has an excellent education system which is free and mandatory for all children up to age twelve, with very nominal fees for secondary education, and foreign-funded scholarships for post-secondary education.
	www.gurupedia.com /t/to/tonga.htm (1296 words)

	Choral Music of Tonga - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		Choral Music of Tonga - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		The traditional multipart singing of the people of Tonga is thought to predate the coming of Europeans.
		This song is part of a song-dance form called lakalaka, a popular dance performed by as many as 100 people.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461519195/Choral_Music_of_Tonga.html (104 words)

	South Pacific islands - music of Oceania
		Music from Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.
		Music from Rabi, the new home of the Micronesian Banabans of Ocean Island.
		Choral singing of religious music from the Marquesas Islands.
	www.southpacific.org /music.html (666 words)

	World Music Central - CD Reviews
		She brings to us music of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, once a member of the Soviet Union), that combines melodies plucked on a doutar (a lute), with minimal percussion and mesmerizing soprano vocals.
		Zambia Roadside is a compilation of Tonga music recorded as recently as August 2002.
		The venerable Jewish roots music called klezmer has seen peaks and valleys of popularity, and much of its recent visibility can be attributed to a combination ofgeneral interest in world music and good old fashioned resiliency.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /index.php?topic=CDreview&page=63 (1342 words)

	International Library of African Music (ILAM)
		MOA28 features music of pentatonic mbiras of the Soga, Nyoro & Ilimba (Uganda); Luba & Alur (D.R. Congo); of hexatonic of the Ndau (Zimbabwe & Mozambique), and Luba (D.R. Congo); heptatonic of the Lala (Zambia), Nyamwezi (Tanzania), Venda (South Africa), Mbunda (Barotseland); Njanja & Karanga (Zimbabwe); and Binza & Medje (D.R. Congo).
		The Music of Africa Series was produced by Hugh Tracey in the early 1960s as an off-shoot of his 218 LP Sound of Africa Series, in order to present African music to a general audience.
		Hugh Tracey presented the music on these albums according to instrument type, geographic region, and in the case of Princess Magogo, to feature an exceptional musician.
	ilam.ru.ac.za /moa (966 words)

	Excite - Travel Guide - Recommended Reading
		Tonga Islands: William Mariner's Account by Dr John Martin, was published in 1817, and is the best book available on pre-Christian Tonga.Paul Theroux's The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific is a downbeat account of the perpetually sneering writer's canoe journey around the islands.
		Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern by IC Campbell is a comprehensive and up to date history of the archipelago.Earl R Hinz's Landfalls of Paradise: The Guide to the Pacific Islands gives a complete run down on anchorages, navigation, marinas, fees and officialdom throughout the South and central Pacific, and is invaluable for yachties.
		Sounds of Change in Tonga: Dance, Music and Cultural Dynamics in a Polynesian Kingdom by Ad Linkels, is a study of the changes taking place in Tonga's traditional music and dance.
	www1.excite.com /travel/travelguide/reading/0,20310,pacific-542,00.html (223 words)

	Tonga - Time - Weather - Coins - Hotels - Music
		History of International Dateline Hotel, the sole Stated-owned Hotel of Tonga was originally built in 1965 and officially opened by His Majesty The King Tauka'ahau Tupou IV in September 1966.
		In early 1977, an eastern Wing was built and in early 2002, an western Wing has been under building and will be opened at late June, 2003.
		Music: Stay Inside - the new frontier of the music - free music, rock, lyrics, song, mp3, download, author, rock.
	www.exxun.com /Tonga/k_lk.html (454 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bibliography of Tonga, by Helen Morton, LaTrobe University.
		This document is a part of a larger collection of the AnthroGlobe specialist bibliographies, and a subsection of the Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library.
		1995 press release from the Tonga Statistics Dept. on populations of Tongans residing outside of Tonga, posted on Tonga on the Net.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~akstill/CyberGuides/Pacific_CyberGuide/Tonga.html (604 words)

	UH Music Faculty - Jane Freeman Moulin
		Cultural exchange/borrowing in Pacific music and dance; changing transmission patterns in Tahitian music and dance; musical instruments in the Society Islands and the Marquesas Islands (historical contexts for understanding musical instruments; text-based performance); interactions of musicians and dancers; multi-dimensional performance.
		Galpin Society Journal, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Arts, Journal of Musicological Research, and Journal of Polynesian Studies, UCLA Dance Ethnology Journal as well as reference works such as New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, International Encyclopedia of Dance, Encyclopedia of the Pacific Islands.
		Major field collection recorded under the auspices of the UNESCO Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music and housed at the Archive of Maori and Pacific music at the University of Auckland.
	www.hawaii.edu /uhmmusic/faculty/moulin.htm (1087 words)

	mulonga.net - Home
		With the feasibility document complete and in circulation, activities during this period focused on giving support to the centres in a bid to increase the lifespan of the equipment in the district.
		Tonga is synonymous to "the people of the great river".
		This is a term deeply rooted in the history that we as Tonga people share, both Zambian and Zimbabwean.
	www.mulonga.net (541 words)

	Concert2004
		105 groups competed in the two-day music extravaganza with great fun to the more than 8000 avid spectators.
		Having seen the importance and impact the music festival has had on the community, the station raised funds to get better speaker system.
		I am proud to say that this year we gave the spectators the music they so much long for.
	www.jesuit.ie /uk/chikuni/Concert/Concert2004.htm (1085 words)

	Sea for Yourself - Snorkeling Trips - Tonga Resources
		Friendly Isles: a Tale of Tonga and 'Utulei, My Tonga Home, are both entertaining reads by an American woman (teacher) who made Vava'u her home in the 1950's.
		Sounds of Change in Tonga: Dance, Music and Cultural Dynamics in a Polynesian Kingdom presents a study of changes in traditional music and dance of Tonga.
		Birds of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa covers all the region's endemic and migratory birds with color illustrations.
	www.seaforyourself.com /tonga_resources.htm (351 words)

	BETA Records Artistpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		His music and musicianship has affected many people in America, and through his travels he has learned to blend with many different cultures.
		Some of his main influences come from the island music of Tonga and Jamaica, but his own style is always recognizable in the jazzy/blue voicing of his guitar.
		Micah is very dedicated to the spirit of his music, and has been guided along the way by like-minded musicians.
	www.betarecords.com /micah.foxx (162 words)

	Sony Music USA
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		Yes, I would like to receive the Daily Dish to stay up to date on all the latest music news from Columbia Records.
	www.sonymusic.com /join (337 words)

	Pacific Islands Radio Artists' Profiles - Polynesia
		Tahiti is a special place and its vibrant music is unique, exciting and unforgettable.
		The music features the drums and chants of traditional hula, a classical art varying very little resemblance to the tourist form most visitors are familiar with, and the wonderfully distinct "slack key" guitar sound that is unique to these islands.
		The film "Troubled Paradise" is both a celebration of the richness of Hawaiian culture and a compelling look at the social and political problems facing its indigenous population.
	www.pacificislandsradio.com /profiles/polynesia.htm (355 words)

	TONGA COMPOSITION PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		To date, Valley Tonga music remains virtually unexplored by researchers and is generally unknown outside the Tonga area.
		But Tracey was in the Valley for ten days only and so the work of bringing understanding of Tonga music to outsiders has been left to others.
		The strangely contemporary sound of this ancient music has now caught the attention of six "progressive" composers from Austria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, each of whom has tried to make sense of the nyele by writing creative responses to its remote sound world.
	www.servus.at /argezim/nyami/composition.htm (521 words)

	TAP Online Archive: 2003 Program Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Soji is well-known in the Bay Area African music scene; he performs with The West African Highlife Band, The Nigerian Brothers, and Kotoja.
		This concert features the village music of the Andean highlands played on a wide selection of instruments, many of which were crafted by Mr.
		Sea chanties (or shanties) are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship-raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.
	www.calacademy.org /research/anthropology/tap/ARCHIVE/2003/2003.html (2274 words)

	Music 4 Games -- The Future of Rock n' Roll & Interactive Entertainment. Est. 1999.
		Delivering a masterful mix of melodic and sublime atmospherics, explosive electronic beats intoxicated with musical distortion.
		BAFTA awards music composed by Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh, Akari Grooves.
		Music composed and produced by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori.
	www.music4games.net (219 words)

	Amazon.com: Malie! Beautiful!: Dance Music of Tonga: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This is really the sound of Tonga (along with the album of kava songs, "Pacific Music 2: Tongan Kava Circle").
		If anyone thinks this isn't Tongan dance music, they must never have been to the Friendly Isles.
		It may not be music to dance in the moonlight to, but it certainly provides a wonderful taste of the traditional Tonga social line dance.
	www.amazon.com /Malie-Beautiful-Dance-Music-Tonga/dp/B0000036ZV (458 words)

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