PASI 202 globalisation and popular culture in the pacific 22 points   Uso Car Club exhibition, Veterans Memorial Stadium, Amerika Samoa Photo: April K. Henderson ©2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Coordinator:                                                             April K Henderson, April.Henderson@vuw.ac.nz

                                                                                    6 Kelburn Parade

Room 206                   ext 5829

 

Lectures:        Tuesday, Wednesday 1:10-2:00pm,  HU LT 119

Tutorials:      Thursday 11:00-11:50am, Seminar Room 6 KP  —or—

                        Friday 1:10-2:00pm, Seminar Room 6 KP

 

For additional information:                                                Diana Felagai

                                                                                    6 Kelburn Parade

                                                                                    Room 101                   ext 5830

 

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Bula vinaka, Fakaalofa atu, Taloha ni, Ello wantok, Kam na bane ni mauri, Aloha kakou, Tena Koutou! In this paper, students will examine complex processes of globalisation as they relate to the Pacific Islands region, focusing particularly on the development and influence of popular cultures and their relationships to global flows of capital, information, resources, and people.

 

This course critically explores some of the dynamic contemporary popular cultures of the Pacific. We will delve into the way popular cultures illuminate the connections between local and global history. We will situate Pacific popular cultures within global flows of capital, information, resources and people, while also investigating their relationships to local histories of economic, political, and social change.  Students will be encouraged to examine contemporary Pacific popular cultures within long Pacific histories of dynamic innovation, while also questioning how current processes of globalisation may present a new and different context for cultural change.

 

In this paper, students will be encouraged to theorise “the work of the popular”: what work do popular cultures do in Pacific societies? What are their effects? How do the histories of Pacific popular cultures complicate essentialising notions about Pacific cultures? In what ways are popular cultures both a product of global processes and, sometimes simultaneously, potent spaces for critique of these processes? How can the histories of Pacific popular cultures illuminate longer histories of Pacific relationships within the region, and between the Pacific and the rest of the world?

 

While discussion may range over a wide variety of topical examples of Pacific participation, contestation, innovation and engagement with global processes, particular attention will be paid to provocative examples drawn from music, dance, film and television, sport, fashion, and tattooing.

 

 

Learning Objectives

 

Students who pass this paper will:

• Be familiar with key processes of globalisation;
• Be able to discuss Pacific Island societies with relation to global flows of capital, commodities, information, resources and people;
• Be familiar with concepts regarding the roles of popular culture in society;
• Be able to articulate links between global flows and popular cultures;
• Be able to analyse examples of popular culture in the Pacific, and articulate relationships between popular cultures and politics, economics, history, religion, education, and migration;
• Be able to summarize and discuss ideas put forward in the assigned materials for the course;
• Be able to share their own ideas and perspectives on globalisation and Pacific popular cultures through written and oral presentations, and;
• Be able to draw links between course materials and local representations of Pacific popular cultures.

 

 

Mode of Delivery / Contact Hours

 

This course will be delivered in a standard format consistent with 22 point courses in other departments within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Students will be expected to attend two one-hour lectures and one one-hour tutorial per week, and should allow an average of 15 hours per week for this course for class and tutorial sessions and preparation.

 

Regular tutorial sessions will be held from Week 2-Week 11. Additionally, in Week 12 there will be a combined tutorial session where group presentations will take place (date, time, and venue to be arranged). Students must attend nine of the eleven scheduled tutorial sessions. Students who fail to do so may lose marks.

 

 

Assessment

 

Students will be assessed on the following:

 

Field Trip Report – 10%    Approximately 600-800 word report

Class Test – 20%    Composed of short identification section; reading summary section; and one short essay.

Essay – 20%    Approximately 2000 words, analysing an example of Pacific popular cultures.

Presentations – 15%    One 7-10 minute individual seminar presentation on a selected course reading, to be delivered in tutorial (5%); one 4-5 minute presentation on your final essay topic, to be developed and delivered as part of a larger group presentation on globalisation and Pacific popular cultures in Week 12 (10%).

Final Examination – 35%    Composed of short identification section; reading summary section; and two short essays.

 

Submitting assignments: Assignments should be handed either to the lecturer in class, handed to Diana Felagai in the SAMO/PASI office at 6 KP, or dropped into the drop box outside the office door by the due date. Emailed assignments will not be accepted except by special arrangement with the lecturer. Late assignments will not be accepted except by special arrangement with the lecturer. If you have extenuating circumstances, you MUST request an extension BEFORE the assignment is due.

 

Further description of assessment items:

 

Field Trip Report – 10%  600-800 words    Due Friday, 29 July in to 6 KP

 

The greater Wellington region is an exciting hot spot for Pacific popular cultures! There are so many things happening here that make us realize how closely what we do here links us to the islands of the Pacific and to other regions of the world. Around Wellington, there are an inexhaustible number of sites where popular cultures significant to Pacific peoples or places are produced, consumed, and engaged with. So that you begin to make the links for yourselves between what we're studying and what's going on in "the real world," this field trip assignment requires you to seek out —outside of class hours—one of these sites where popular culture is engaged with and produced, and write up a 600-word report of “what, where, when, who, why, how?” As stated, the list of applicable sites is almost inexhaustible, but here is a partial list of suggestions you might consider:

 

• A music or other performing arts event (live concert, nightclub, dance performance, variety show, play, comedy performance, etc)
• A sporting event, such as a rugby game, cricket game, netball game, volleyball game, etc (at whatever level)
• A youth group or other social club or group event
• A community market (e.g. the Porirua market, or for those who might travel further afield, the Otara or Avondale markets in Auckland)
• A retail store offering Pacific-themed apparel or other goods (try North City shopping center)
• A museum exhibition related to Pacific popular culture. For example, check out “The New Cool,” an exhibition up at The Dowse in Lower Hutt from 9 June -30 August, which features the work of creative, youth-oriented companies such as Dawn Raid and Disruptiv. Or, how are popular cultures represented in Te Papa’s “Mana Pasefika” exhibit?
• A Pacific-related film screening. Try to see The New Oceania, a film about Samoan novelist Albert Wendt, screening as part of the NZ film festival. Sunday, 31 July, 2:15 pm in Soundings Theatre, Te Papa. $14.00 adult or $11.00 student standby. Book early! Ticket information at: http://www.enzedff.co.nz/grids/b_grid-text-noimage.asp?id=210&area=8&RegionID=1&EventID=9

 

This assignment requires you to describe and begin to analyze something that might be completely new, or might already be familiar to you. To deepen your analysis, keep in mind questions such as:

 

• Are certain objects important to this popular cultural practice (specific kinds of clothing or equipment or specific materials used - for example “boy racing” obviously requires cars)?
• Where do the objects or materials used come from? Who originally produces them and where?
• How are the objects or materials used or changed?
• How are Pacific peoples involved?

• Is there an exchange of money involved? If so, who does the money come from, and who does it go to?
• What sense do you have of the development of this popular cultural practice—were people doing this 50 years ago? 25, 10, or 5 years ago? Last year? How has it developed and changed, and what have been the significant factors contributing to its development?

 

 

Class Test – 20%       In-class 10 August

 

This 50-minute test will be held during class midway through the term. The format of this test is comparable to those in other Pacific Studies 18 and 22 point courses (e.g. PASI 101; PASI 201).

1)    Section I (5%) requires identification of key terms and short answers to questions drawn from readings and lectures.

2)    Section II (7.5%) requires three 150-200 word summaries of course readings and audiovisual materials, selected from a list provided.

3)    Section III (7.5%) requires one 500-600 word essay, selected from a list of topics provided.

 

 

Essay – 20%   Approximately 2000 words.  Due Friday 14 October in to 6 KP

 

Your essay will:

A)   Identify a form or aspect of a Pacific popular culture within one of the following four broad categories:

1.     music and dance

2.     fashion, adornment, and body modification

3.     sports and recreation

4.     film, television, and other media

B)    Situate this form or aspect of Pacific popular culture within a geographical, historical, political, and economic context. In other words, where are people engaging in this popular cultural practice, how long have they been engaging in it and how has it changed over time, what relationships does the practice have to popular cultures practiced elsewhere in the world, and what is the social, economic, and political significance of the practice? Why does it matter that people are engaging in it?;

C)   Analyse the popular cultural practice in terms of key theories about globalization.  How does this practice fit within debates over whether globalization entails homogenization or heterogenization?;

D)   Incorporate course materials, especially course readings, into your analysis, and include a bibliography for the written or audiovisual sources used in your analysis. Your bibliography should have at least five sources; at least four of these must be published sources, and at least one of these must be a required reading for this course. The remaining sources can include internet sites. Your bibliography should include authors' names, full title of publication, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, and, if it is a magazine or journal article, page numbers. The bibliography should be presented in the alphabetical order of the authors' last names. Try to avoid consulting encyclopedic reference books or substandard information off the net—as a university student you have access to so many more specialized sources. Take advantage of your university privileges.

 

 

Tutorial Seminar Presentation and Group Presentation – 15%

 

You will be required to give two short presentations in this course. 

 

1)    The first presentation (5%) will be a focused response to a particular reading for that week, to be delivered in tutorial.  In this presentation, you will outline the key themes raised in the reading and pose several discussion questions to the group based on your understanding and analysis of the material. Each tutorial seminar presentation is to be 7-10 minutes in length, and assessment will be based on organisation, relevance to course themes and materials, accuracy, and the provision of references. Students will sign-up for the material they wish to present on in the first tutorial session.

2)    The second presentation (10%) will be based on your final essay topic, and will be developed and delivered as part of a larger group presentation covering one of the four categories of Pacific popular culture listed in the essay assignment. Here’s how it works: You will sign up for one of the four presentation groups in Week 6 (sign-up sheets posted at 6 KP). You will then need to work with other members of your group to develop separate topics within the broad group theme. Once each of you has your topic, you will individually begin working on your essays. In the second half of the term, you should begin meeting and working together as a group on your final group presentation. A successful group presentation will be able to weave together the individual elements into a lively, articulate and insightful discussion of the broader group theme. Creative elements are welcomed. Assessment will be based on organisation, relevance to course themes and materials, accuracy, and the provision of references, and you will be assessed collectively as a group.

 

 

Final Examination – 35%   3 hour Registry Examination-Date/Time tba

 

The final examination is similar in format to the class test, but is lengthier and requires more time for response. Materials from the first half of the term will be relevant to this examination, but the majority of the content will be drawn from the second half of the term.

 

1)    Section I (7.5%) requires identification of key terms and short answers to questions drawn from readings and lectures.

2)    Section II (12.5%) requires five150-200 word summaries of selected course readings and audiovisual materials.

3)    Section III (15%) requires two 500-600 word essays.

 

 

GENERAL UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND STATUTES

 

Students should familiarise themselves with the University's policies and statutes, particularly those regarding assessment and course of study requirements, and formal academic grievance procedures.

 

Student Conduct and Staff Conduct

The Statute on Student Conduct together with the Policy on Staff Conduct ensure that members of the University community are able to work, learn, study and participate in the academic and social aspects of the University's life in an atmosphere of safety and respect.  The Statute on Student Conduct contains information on what conduct is prohibited and what steps can be taken if there is a complaint.  For queries about complaint procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct, contact the Facilitator and Disputes Advisor.  This Statute is available in the Faculty Student Administration Office or on the website at:

www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/StudentConduct.

The policy on Staff Conduct can be found on the VUW website at:

www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/StaffConduct.

 

Academic Grievances

If you have any academic problems with your course you should talk to the tutor or lecturer concerned or, if you are not satisfied with the result of that meeting, see the Head of School or the relevant Associate Dean of your faculty.  Class representatives are available to assist you with this process.  If, after trying the above channels, you are still unsatisfied, formal grievance procedures can be invoked.  These are set out in the Academic Grievance Policy which is published on the VUW website:

www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/AcademicGrievances.

                                                                    

Academic integrity and Plagiarism

Academic integrity is about honesty – put simply it means no cheating. All members of the University community are responsible for upholding academic integrity, which means staff and students are expected to behave honestly, fairly and with respect for others at all times.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating which undermines academic integrity. Plagiarism is prohibited at Victoria.

 

The University defines plagiarism as follows:

Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as if it were your own, whether you mean to or not.

 

‘Someone else’s work’ means anything that is not your own idea, even if it is presented in your own style. It includes material from books, journals or any other printed source, the work of other students or staff, information from the Internet, software programmes and other electronic material, designs and ideas. It also includes the organization or structuring of any such material.

 

Plagiarism is not worth the risk.

 

Any enrolled student found guilty of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary procedures under the Statute on Student Conduct (www.vuw.ac.nz/policy/studentconduct) and may be penalized severely. Consequences of being found guilty of plagiarism can include:

•           an oral or written warning

•           suspension from class or university

•           cancellation of your mark for an assessment or a fail grade for

            the course.

 

Find out more about plagiarism and how to avoid it, on the University’s website at:

            www.vuw.ac.nz/home/studying/plagiarism.html.

 

Students with Disabilities

The University has a policy of reasonable accommodation of the needs of students with disabilities.  The policy aims to give students with disabilities an equal opportunity with all other students to demonstrate their abilities.  If you have a disability, impairment or chronic medical condition (temporary, permanent or recurring) that may impact on your ability to participate, learn and/or achieve in lectures and tutorials or in meeting the course requirements, please contact the Course Co-ordinator as early in the course as possible.  Alternatively you may wish to approach a Student Adviser from Disability Support Services to confidentially discuss your individual needs and the options and support that are available.  Disability Support Services are located on Level 1, Robert Stout Building:

                                               

Telephone: 463-6070

Email: disability@vuw.ac.nz

 

The name of your School’s Disability Liaison Person is in the relevant prospectus or can be obtained from the Administrative Assistant.

 

Student Support

Staff at Victoria want students' learning experiences at the University to be positive.  If your academic progress is causing you concern, the following staff members will either help you directly or quickly put you in contact with someone who can.

	Staff member	Location
FHSS	Dr Allison Kirkman, Assoc. Dean (Students)	Murphy Building, room 407
Law	Kirstin Harvey	Old Govt Building, room 103
Science, and Architecture and Design	Liz Richardson	Cotton Building, room 150
Commerce and Administration	Colin Jeffcoat	Railway West Wing, room 119
Kaiwawao Maori	Liz Rawhiti	Old Kirk, room 007
Manaaki Pihipihinga	Melissa Dunlop	14 Kelburn Pde, room 109D
Victoria International	Anne Cronin	10 Kelburn Pde, room 202

 

The Student Services Group is also available to provide a variety of support and services.  Find out more at:

www.vuw.ac.nz/st_services/

Email: student-services@vuw.ac.nz.

 

VUWSA employs two Education Cooordinators who deal with academic problems and provide support, advice and advocacy services, as well as organising class representatives and faculty delegates.  The Education Office is located on the ground floor, Student Union Building:

Telephone 463 6983 or 463 6984

Email: education@vuwsa.org.nz.

PASI 202 Weekly Schedule

WEEK 1 – Regional Overview: The Global Now

 

 

 

05/07 Session 1 – Introduction to course

06/07 Session 2 – Lecture, “The global now”

 

**Reminder** – Tutorials: You must sign up for either Tutorial Group 1 (Thursday 11:00-11:50am) or Tutorial Group 2 (Friday 1:10-2:00pm) this week. Sign-up sheets on PASI board at 6 KP. All tutorials will take place in the Seminar Room at 6 KP

 

READINGS – WEEK 1

1. Rasmussen, Vaine, “Our Pacific,” in Robert Borofsky, ed., Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000: 399-400

2. Nero, Karen, “The End of Insularity,” in Donald Denoon, Stewart Firth, Jocelynn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea and Karen Nero, eds, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. London: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 439-467

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 1 This is an easy one! If you aren’t already familiar with the Samoan and Pacific Studies building at 6 KP, drop by this week to introduce yourself to our friendly administration assistant, Diana Felagai, and note the locations of the Seminar Room, assignment drop-off box, and your lecturer’s sunny office upstairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 2 –Globalisation and the Pacific Islands

 

 

 

12/07 Session 1 – Guest Lecture, Dr. Maria Bargh (Maori Studies, VUW) (to be

confirmed) “Globalisation from the top down or globalisation from the bottom up?”

 13/07 Session 2 – [video] Kilim Taem (prod. by UNICEF)

 

READINGS – WEEK 2

3. Firth, Stewart, “The Pacific Islands and the Globalization Agenda.” The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 12 No. 1, 2000: 178-192

4. Lockwood, Victoria S., “ The Global Imperative and Pacific Islands Societies,” in Victoria S. Lockwood, ed., Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. Upper Saddle River, NJ; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004: 1-39

[handout] Mitchell, Jean “‘Killing Time’ in a Postcolonial Town: Young People and Settlements in Port Vila, Vanuatu,” in Victoria S. Lockwood, ed., Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. Upper Saddle River, NJ; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004: 358-376

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 2 For an extensive library on development and globalisation issues in many Pacific Islands, visit: Development Resource Center (DEVZONE) Level 5, PSA House, 11 Aurora Tce (off the Terrace) (04) 472-9549

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 3 – Globalisation and Culture

 

 

 

 

19/07 Session 1 – Lecture, “Locating culture in models of globalisation”

20/07 Session 2 – [video] Trobriand Cricket (dir. Gary Kildea and Jerry Leach)

 

**Reminder** – Field Trip Report due in to 6 KP on Friday, 29 July

 

READINGS – WEEK 3

5. Small, Cathy A., “Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s,” in Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997: 127-146; 227-228

6. Appadurai, Arjun, “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” in Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1996: 27-47

7. Lipsitz, George,  “Facing Up to What’s Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory,” in Elizabeth Long, Ed., From Sociology to Cultural Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers 1997: 234-257

8. Cruickshank, Samuel, “urban iwi: tihei mauri ora!,” in Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan, eds, Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Honolulu; University of Hawai’i Press, 2003: 46-47

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 3 Our friends at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center, have an ongoing project examining the origins, nature, and consequences of globalisation in both the Pacific Island and Caribbean regions. Visit this project, called “Islands of Globalization,” online at http://www.eastwestcenter.org/pidp/mi/index2.htm

    

 

      

 

 

 

 

WEEK 4 - The Work of the Popular

 

 

 

 

26/07 Session 1 – Lecture, “What is ‘popular culture’?”

27/07 Session 2 – Lecture, “The work of the popular”

 

**Reminder** – Field Trip Report due in to 6 KP by Friday this week

 

READINGS – WEEK 4

9. Fiske, John, “Commodities and Culture,” in Understanding Popular Culture. London and New York; Routledge, 1989: 23-47

10. Linnekin, Jocelynn, “Tradition Sells: Identity Merchandise in the Island Pacific,” in Victoria S. Lockwood, ed., Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. Upper Saddle River, NJ; Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004: 324-338

 

 

Recommended Places to Visit - Week 4 Langi’s Island Styles 8 Cobham Court, Porirua (or) 262 Jackson St, Petone; Dawn Raid Clothing, online at http://www.dawnraid.co.nz

                                                                                      

 

 

WEEK 5 – The Pacific in Global Markets, Global Markets in the Pacific

 

 

 

 

02/08 Session 1 – Lecture, “Locating the Pacific in global markets”

03/08 Session 2 – Lecture, “Locating the global in Pacific markets”; [video] excerpt from

multimedia presentation on Porirua open-air market produced by students of PASI 202, 2004

 

**Reminder** – Study for Class Test!

 

READINGS – WEEK 5

[handout] Besnier, Niko, “Consumption and Cosmopolitanism: Practicing Modernity at the Second-Hand Marketplace in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.” Unpublished manuscript: 1-33. To appear in Anthropology Quarterly vol 77, 2004: 7-46

11. Figiel, Sia, “ The Centre,” in Where We Once Belonged. Auckland: Pasifika Press, 1996: 65-89

 

	Recommended Place to Visit - Week 6 Porirua open-air market Saturday mornings, 6am-10am (get there early!) Located in the car park across from the Porirua City Council Bldgs

 

 

 

 

WEEK 6 – “Media - Information, Identity, Community”

 

 

 

WEEK 6 – “Media - Information, Identity, Community”

 

09/08 Session 1 – Lecture, “Media – Information, Identity, Community”

10/08 Session 2 – CLASS TEST

 

**Reminder**- Sign up for presentation groups this week. Sign up sheets on PASI board in 6 KP

 

READINGS – WEEK 6

12. Sullivan, Nancy, “How Media Became the Message in Papua New Guinea: A Coda,” in Peter Britos, ed., Oceania in the Age of Global Media, a special edition of Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism Vol. 23 No.1 Spring 2003: 27-32

13. Seward, Robert, “Radio Happy Isles,” in Radio Happy Isles: Media and Politics at Play in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999: 13-37

14. Howard, Alan, “Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web,” The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 11 No. 1 Spring 1999: 161-175

 

Recommended Places to Visit - Week 7 http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/hanua.html http://polycafe.com/ http://www.anomasimanews.com/ http://planet-tonga.com/ http://taimiotonga.com/ http://www.fobstyle.com/kavabowl/ http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/graphics.shtml http://www.pacificforum.com/ict/index.shtml http://www.samoa.co.uk/ http://www.ozfiji.com/ http://www.fijitimes.online

  

 

        

 

 

 

 

MID-TERM BREAK 15 August – 26 August

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 7 –  “Comedy, Clowning and Humour”

 

 

 

 

30/08 Session 1 – Guest Lecture, Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin (Samoan Studies,

VUW), “Samoan Fale aitu”

31/08 Session 2 – [video] A Small Samoan Wedding (Laughing Samoans Productions)

 

**Reminder- work on group presentations for next week!**

 

READINGS – WEEK 7

15. Hereniko, Vilsoni, “Clowning as political commentary: Polynesia – then and now,” in Barry Craig, Bernie Kernot and Christopher Anderson, eds, Art and Performance in Oceania. Honolulu; University of Hawai’i Press, 1999: 15-29

16. Sinavaiana-Gabbard, Caroline, “Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theatre in Samoa,” in Vilsoni Hereniko and Rob Wilson, eds, Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific. Lanham, MD; Rowman and Littlefied, 1999: 183-205

17. Hau’ofa, Epeli, “The Seventh and Other Days,” and “ The Winding Road to Heaven,” in Tales of the Tikongs. Suva; Beake House, 1983: 1-10

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 7 Any comedy shows happening in your area? If you can’t get to anything, get up to the A/V Suite and check out DVD 1264, Mau Mahara, featuring Billy T. James. Reflect on the ways James used humour to comment on race relations and society in New Zealand.

 

 

 

 

WEEK 8 – “Film and Television”

 

 

 

 

06/09 Session 1 – Guest Lecture, Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville (English, VUW)

07/09 Session 2 – [video] Bro’Town; excerpts from film and television

 

READINGS – WEEK 8

18. Marsh, Selina Tusitala, “Statued (stat you?) Traditions.” Wasafiri no 25, Spring 1997: 52- 54

19. Douglas, Norman, “Electric Shadows in the South Seas: The Pacific Islands in Film – A Survey,” in D. Aoki, ed., Moving Images of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Films and Videos. Honolulu; University of Hawai’i Center for Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Paper 38, 1994: 3-19

20. Pearson, Sarina, “Subversion and Ambivalence: Pacific Islanders on New Zealand Prime Time,” The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 11 No. 2 (Fall 1999): 361-388

21. Barclay, Barry, “An Open Letter to John Barnett”; Anne Keala Kelly, “Haolewood: Colonial Codes, Kapu Narratives, and Kanaka ‘Oiwi Discourse”; Nicholas Rossier, “Wrestling With History: Kamehameha the Great versus ‘The Great One’,” in Peter Britos, ed., Oceania in the Age of Global Media a Special Issue of Spectator The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism Vol. 23 No. 1 (Spring 2003): 33-43

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 8 See television programmes being made! Avalon Studio (TVNZ) 45 Percy Cameron, Lower Hutt Call (04) 914-5600 for information about programmes currently taping

                                                                                 

 

 

 

WEEK 9 – Contexts for Pacific Dance, From PCC to Polyfest to the Pacific Festival of Arts

 

 

 

13/09 Session 1 – Lecture, “Who do you dance for?: International contexts for

Pacific popular performance”

14/09 Session 2 – [video] Dances of Life (Prod. Shane Palusi Seggar)

 

READINGS – WEEK 9

22. Stillman, Amy Ku’uleialoha, "Re-membering the History of Hawaiian Hula," in Jeannette Mageo, ed., Cultural Memory: Re-Configuring History and Identity in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 187-204

23. Moulin, Jane, “What’s Mine is Yours? Cultural Borrowing in a Pacific Context,” The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 8 No. 1 Spring 1996: 128-153

24. Moyle, Richard, “Pacific Music and Dance in New Zealand,” in Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, eds, Pacific Art Niu Sila: the Pacific dimension of contemporary New Zealand arts. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2003: 103-115

 

Recommended Places to Visit - Week 9 Any Pacific dance performances happening in your area! Also, check out the website for PASI’s November conference, “Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania from hiva to hip hop”: http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/dance To volunteer to assist with this event, email Belinda Findlay-Weepu at culturemoves_conference@vuw.ac.nz

                                                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

WEEK 10 – Contemporary Pacific Music – Reggae and Hip Hop

 

 

 

20/09 Session 1 – Lecture, “Reggae in the Pacific”

21/09 Session 2 – Lecture – “Hip Hop in the Pacific”; excerpts from video footage

 

**Reminder – work on final essay!**

 

READINGS – WEEK 10

25. Ho’omanawanui, Ku’ualoha, “From Ocean to O-Shen: Some Aspects of Reggae, Rap and Hip-Hop in Hawai’i,” Unpublished paper, 2004: 1-32

26. Zemke-White, Kirsten, “Rap Music and Pacific Identity in Aotearoa: Popular Music and the Politics of Opposition,” in Cluny Macpherson, Paul Spoonley and Melani Anae, eds, Tangata O Te Moana Nui: The Evolving Identities of Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Palmerston North, NZ: Dunmore Press, 2001: 228-242

[handout] Selby, Melanie, “King Music’s Pacific,” New Zealand Musician  Vol 11 No 5 April/May 2004, available online at http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/printversion/pi_articleid/366. Retrieved 1 July 2004

 

Recommended Places to Visit - Week 10 Do you have a city library card? Did you know that the Wellington Central Library has a large selection of Pacific CDs that you can check out? Also:  King Exports is one of the largest distributors of Pacific Islands music in the world. See the amazing variety of recordings available from Pacific Island musicians on their website. Bet you never knew there was so much!: http://www.kingmusic.co.nz/help/kingmusic/about.lasso

                                                                                                      

 

WEEK 11 – Tatau/Tattoo

 

 

27/09 Session 1 – Guest lecture, Sean Mallon (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

Tongarewa)

28/09 Session 2 – [video] Tatau: What One Must Do, dir. Micah Van der Ryn

 

**Reminder** – Group presentations next week. Is your group ready?

 

READINGS – WEEK 11

27. Mallon, Sean and Uili Fecteau, “Tatau-ed: Polynesian Tatau in Aotearoa,” in Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, eds, Pacific Art Niu Sila: The Pacific dimension of contemporary New Zealand arts. Wellington” Te Papa Press, 2002: 21-38

28. Mallon, Sean, “Tufuga Tatatau: The Master Tattooists,” in Samoan Art and Artists. Nelson, NZ: Craig Potton Publishing, 2002: 104-118

29. Peter Brunt and Mark Adams, “Photographing Tatau and the Politics of Friendship,” in the catalogue for the exhibition  Tatau: Pe’a: Photographs by Mark Adams and Measina Samoa: Stories of the Malu by Lisa Taouma. Wellington: Adam Art Gallery Victoria University of Wellington, 2003: 9-24

 

Recommended Places to Visit - Week 11 The Tattoo Museum on Abel Tasman St (just across and down a bit from Zebo’s); or a tattoo parlour such as Tattoo Art by Roger, 198 Cuba St, or Tattoo City, 1st Floor 124 Cuba Mall. Browse the books of work done by local tattoo artists and spot the Pacific-inspired pieces.

 

 

 

WEEK 12 – Globalisation, Sport and Gender

 

 

 

04/10 Session 1 – Lecture, “Power Play: Situating Sport in the Global Arena”

05/10 Session 2 – Revision for final exam

 

**Reminder** – Group presentations in a combined tutorial this week. Date, time, and venue to be arranged

 **Reminder** - Final essay due in to 6 KP Friday, 14 October ***

 

 

 

 

READINGS – WEEK 12

30. Diaz, Vicente M., “’Fight Boys, ‘til the Last…’:Island style Football and the Remasculinization of Indigeneity in the Militarized American Pacific Islands,” in Paul Spickard, Joanne L. Ronfilla, and Debie Hippolyte Wright, erd, Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the  United States and Across the Pacific. Honolulu; University of Hawai’i Press: 169-194

31. Hokowhitu, Brendan, “Tackling Maori Masculinity: A Colonial Genealogy of Savagery and Sport.” Contemporary Pacific vol 16, number 2, Fall 2004: 259-284

32. Hyde, Tom, “White Men Can’t Jump: The Polynesianisation of Sport,” Metro September 1993: 62-69

 

Recommended Place to Visit - Week 12 Go to any local sporting event—rugby, league, netball, volleyball, Samoan cricket (kirikiti), basketball, whatever! —and take note of how Pacific people are involved (or not) as players, management, and spectators. Pay special attention to the roles of Pacific men and Pacific women in the sporting culture. Are they different? How? Also, what type of transnational links does this sporting culture have?