Provides a survey of syncretic, or "fusion" musics, such as Aboriginal Rock or "Jawaiian" Reggae, across the entire Pacific region. The text includes an in-depth look at Yothu Yindi, a band which has made it into the mainstream music scene.

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.

"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