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| Title: | | Marshall Islands - Moonlight Leta Volume I: Musical Transitions |
| Access Rights: | | Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions) |
| Bibliographic Citation: | | David Bridie (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Moonlight Leta (performer), Moonlight Recording Studios (recorder), Marshall Islands Music & Arts Society (consultant), Scott Stege (compiler), 2008. Marshall Islands - Moonlight Leta Volume I: Musical Transitions. MPEG/WAV. WM2-040a at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/hww9-g154 |
| Contributor (compiler): | | David Bridie |
| Scott Stege |
| Contributor (consultant): | | Marshall Islands Music & Arts Society |
| Contributor (data_inputter): | | Steven Gagau |
| Contributor (performer): | | Moonlight Leta |
| Contributor (recorder): | | Moonlight Recording Studios |
| Coverage (Box): | | northlimit=31.7045; southlimit=16.0723; westlimit=166.152; eastlimit=178.276 |
| Coverage (ISO3166): | | MH |
| Date (W3CDTF): | | 2008-01-01 |
| Date Created (W3CDTF): | | 2008-01-01 |
| Description: | | Moonlight Leta Volume I: Musical Transitions documents the transition from traditional unaccompanied chanting (leta) to modern guitar-accompanied jeta songs among the Marshallese people of the Marshall Islands, curated as an ethnographic compilation.
Marshall Islands traditional music centers on vocal chants and communal performances tied to navigation, ceremonies, and daily life. Drumming, though less common elsewhere in Micronesia, plays a key role with one-sided hourglass drums, conch shells, flutes, and body percussion.
Core Genres include.
1. Roro: Guiding chants for navigation, labor, or legends; island-specific lyrics over steady rhythms.
2. Leta: Unaccompanied women's songs evolving into jeta (guitar-backed) during moonlit dances.
3. Kātkāto: Love laments; Kūtkūt: Warrior chants by men.
Album recordings focuses on Rālik and Ratak chain islands; includes women's kātkāto (love songs) and men's kūtkūt (warrior chants) evolving into jeta with ukulele/guitar.
Partial Tracklist with the Title/Performer and Island Style is inclusive.
1. Leta: Moonlight Song Traditional chant, Majuro women's group
2. Jeta: Moonlight (guitar) Modern Ebeye stringband version
3. Kātkāto: Love Lament Hybrid, Rongelap
4–8. Various leta/jeta pairs] Vocal/guitar, Wotje, Likiep, etc.
9. Kūtkūt: Warrior's Moon, Men's Traditional chant
10–12. Transitions: mixed ensemble for album
Source: Wantok Musik Foundation and Moonlight Tunes, Marshall Islands Guide - https://www.infomarshallislands.com/moonlight-tunes/
(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, March 2026). Language as given: |
| Format: | | Digitised: no |
| Identifier: | | WM2-040a |
| Identifier (URI): | | http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/040a |
| Language: | | Marshallese |
| Language (ISO639): | | mah |
| Publisher: | | Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) |
| Rights: | | Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions) |
| Subject: | | Marshallese language |
| Subject (ISO639): | | mah |
| Subject (OLAC): | | language_documentation |
| Table Of Contents (URI): | | http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/040a/WM2-040a-001.mp3 |
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| Type (DCMI): | | Sound |
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| DateStamp: |
| 2026-03-18 |
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Search Info |
| Citation: | | David Bridie (compiler); Steven Gagau (data_inputter); Moonlight Leta (performer); Moonlight Recording Studios (recorder); Marshall Islands Music & Arts Society (consultant); Scott Stege (compiler). 2008. Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC).
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Inferred Metadata |
| Country: | | Marshall Islands |
| Area: | | Pacific |
