We start our lesson this week in the Pacific Islands with a fascinating fusion of international music and indigenous song. ‘Imene tuki is a kind of music that is unique to the Cook Islands in Polynesia, but bears some resemblance to church music throughout the region, which features cascading multi-part harmonies and elements of pre-colonization chants, such as guttural grunts to emphasize particular parts of the songs.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
