Fakaseasea

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Fakaseasea is a traditional dance of Tuvalu . Together with Fakanau , Oga and Fatele he belongs to the musical tradition of Tuvalu .

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A Tuvaluan dancer at the Pasifika Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.

The dances are traditionally performed while sitting , kneeling or standing. The more modern fatele is danced standing in rows by the women; the men sit opposite the dancers, they sit on the floor and beat the beat with their hands on the seat mats or on wooden boxes such as tea boxes.

Special gestures are performed with arms, hands and upper body. The song is sung more slowly, there are only a few set processes and different names can be used on the different islands.

Individual evidence

  1. Ad Linkels: The Real Music of Paradise . Rough Guides, Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.),, ISBN 1-85828-636-0 , p. 221.
  2. Tuvaluan Fetele . In: Jane's Oceania Page . Retrieved April 10, 2014.
  3. Linkels, Ad .: 'The Real Music of Paradise , Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific . Edition, Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books, 2000, ISBN 1-85828-636-0 .
  4. Gerd Koch: Songs of Tuvalu , translated by Guy Slatter. Edition, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 2000.

literature

  • Dieter Christensen: Old Musical Styles in the Ellice Islands. Western Polynesia, Ethnomusicology, 1964, 8, 1: 34-40.
  • Dieter Christensen, Gerd Koch : The music of the Ellice Islands. Berlin: Museum of Ethnology 1964.
  • Gerd Koch: Songs of Tuvalu. (Translated by Guy Slatter), Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific 2000. ISBN 9820203147 ISBN 978-9820203143
  • Ad Linkels: The Real Music of Paradise. In: Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, with James McConnachie, Orla Duane (ed.): World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books 2000: 218-229. ISBN 1-85828-636-0