Gillespie, Kirsty (2012) Book review of "Songs from the Second Float: a musical ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea" by R. Moyle. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8248-3175-2. The World of Music, 1 (1). pp. 147-148.

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[Extract] With this book, Richard Moyle has written the first full ethnography of the atoll of Takū. However, this book is not his first publication about the atoll, which lies in the far east of Papua New Guinea, approximately two hundred kilometers east of Bougainville. Moyle has conducted research on Takū for almost two decades, the first fieldwork visit being in 1994, and has published a collection of stories from the atoll entitled Nā Kkai Takū: Takū’s Musi-cal Fables (2003), followed by an audio CD of songs that shares the same title as this monograph (but that was released prior to it, in 2005). These previous publications should be seen as complementary pieces that, together with the present volume, illustrate the extraordinary cultural life that the people of Takū live.a

Item ID:	48326
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	0043-8774
Date Deposited:	24 Apr 2017 00:36
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