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An anthology of essays on the new syncretic, or ""fusion"", styles of music of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific region, who have adopted forms of popular music as an expression of their cultural identity.

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Through the 1990s, Philip Hayward has been the driving force behind popular music studies in Australia...[This publication is] a significant milestone and achievement....The strength of the collection lies in the layering up of a sense of community of inquiry, and the fostering of an intertextual head of steam, grounded in a set of empirical, rather than theoretical, concerns. The Contemporary Pacific

Through the 1990s, Philip Hayward has been the driving force behind popular music studies in Australia...[This publication is] a significant milestone and achievement....The strength of the collection lies in the layering up of a sense of community of inquiry, and the fostering of an intertextual head of steam, grounded in a set of empirical, rather than theoretical, concerns. --The Contemporary Pacific

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Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia. Philip Hayward is Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia.

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