Richard Moyle

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Richard Moyle is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Waikato, University of Auckland, University of New Zealand

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PhD Ethnomusicology University of Auckland
Masters Musicology University of New Zealand
Bachelors Music University of New Zealand

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Michael Moyle is a retired New Zealand academic specialising in ethnomusicology of the Pacific and Australia. He splits his time between several Australasian universities. Career Moyle earned a PhD from the University of Auckland and his 1971 doctoral thesis was titled Samoan traditional music. Moyle spent many years in and around the Pacific recording songs and oral histories from indigenous peoples. He held teaching positions at Indiana University, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies before returning to Auckland to become Director of Pacific Studies.

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Alyawarra music : songs and society in a central Australian community (1988) (19)
Traditional Samoan music (1988) (16)
Fagogo: Fables from Samoa in Samoan and English (1981) (15)
Balgo : the musical life of a desert community (1997) (14)
Sexuality in Samoan art forms (1975) (11)
Takuu Grammar and Dictionary: A Polynesian Language of the South Pacific (2011) (8)
Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media (2015) (6)
Dyirbal Song Poetry. The Oral, Literature of an Australian Rainforest People [Book Review] (1996) (4)
Save the last dance — for me? (1993) (4)
Oceanic music encounters : the print resource and the human resource : essays in honour of Mervyn McLean (2007) (3)
Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea (2017) (3)
Samoan Musical Instruments (1974) (3)
Paper songs and frozen assets: Text and traditions (1998) (3)
Waning Stars - Changes to Taku's Star Knowledge (2003) (2)
Observers Observed: Mutually changing perceptions at Balgo (2001) (2)
Samoan Variations: Essays on the Nature of Traditional Oral Arts (1994) (2)
Nā kkai Takū = Taku's musical fables (2003) (2)
Oral tradition and the canoe on Takū (2018) (2)
Goyulan [:] The Morning Star. An Aboriginal Clan Song Series from North Central Arnhem Land (1989) (2)
Drone, melody, and decoration: paradigm lost (1993) (2)
Conch Ensembles: Tonga's Unique Contribution to Polynesian Organology (1975) (1)
Samoan traditional music (1971) (1)
Music of Takuu (Mortlock Is.), Papua New Guinea (1995) (1)
Alyawarr Women’s Rain Songs (2017) (1)
Polynesian sound-producing instruments (1999) (1)
Songs of Bellona Island =: Na taungua o Mungiki (1989) (1)
Matangi lelei to ki la mahaehae (1990) (1)
Songs for a Dead 'Ariki': The Delicate Art of Performing Politics (2011) (1)
RITUAL AND BELIEF ON TAKU Polynesian Religion in Practice (2016) (1)
Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk. Songs from Western Arnhem Land (2008) (0)
Review of For the sake of a song: Wangga songmen and their repositories (2014) (0)
Digital encounters with Pacific Island Radio and Television Archives (2004) (0)
The tree of Lata: Other evidence from Taku (2011) (0)
Tongan Musical Instruments (1976) (0)
Celebrating and Enhancing a Virtual Past through Singing: (2020) (0)
We the Voyagers. Part One: Our Vaka (Lata’s Children); Part Two: Our Moana (2020) (0)
Lies, damn lies and fishing songs : Commemoration and contrivance on Takuu Atoll : Polynesien (1997) (0)
The Banning of Samoa’s Repatriated Mau Songs (2018) (0)
Kanak Songs, Feasts and Lullabies (1992) (0)
The Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland (2021) (0)
Keeping it in the family (2020) (0)
The Sounds of Oceania: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Sound Producing Instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute and Museum (1992) (0)
"We are like someone completely dead and lack a father, Your Excellency:" Bandsmen Sucking Up and Blowing Out in German Samoa (2019) (0)
Flutes de pan melanesiennes 'Are'Are, 1 and 2 (1973) (0)
Don't Rock the Boat – Sing! Maintaining Balance within a Coral Atoll Community (2020) (0)
Traditional Music of Tonga@@@Tongan Festival Contingent (1976) (0)
Musical instruments and sound-producing objects of Oceania [Book Review] (2011) (0)
Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature: Essays in Honor of Katharine Luomala (1981) (0)
Tongan Musical Instruments (Concluded) (1977) (0)
Songs from the second float (2007) (0)
The Music of Samoa; An Authentic sound Picture (1974) (0)
Music and dance of aboriginal Australia and the South pacific: The effect of documentation on the living tradition [Book Review] (1992) (0)

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