Dan Bendrups is an ethnomusicologist who investigates the role of music in sustaining cultural heritage. His research spans communities and cultures in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, as well as migrant communities in Australia and New Zealand. He lectures in research education and development at La Trobe University, Australia, where he is also a member of the La Trobe University Institute of Latin American Studies.

Bendrups weaves a remarkable story from historical sources and his own fieldwork that reveals how the people of Easter Island have used opportunities presented to them over the past 150 years to survive, to sing, and to create new music on their own terms.

• List of FiguresTypographic conventions and stylePreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Rapanui Music in ContextChapter 1: Singing and SurvivalChapter 2: Religion and RenewalChapter 3: Chilean CultureChapter 4: Polynesian PathwaysChapter 5: Commercial ConnectionsEpilogue Glossary of Rapanui musical terms and cultural referencesReferences

Dan Bendrups is an ethnomusicologist who investigates the role of music in sustaining cultural heritage. His research spans communities and cultures in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, as well as migrant communities in Australia and New Zealand. He lectures in research education and development at La Trobe University, Australia, where he is also a member of the La Trobe University Institute of Latin American Studies.

Bendrups weaves a remarkable story from historical sources and his own fieldwork that reveals how the people of Easter Island have used opportunities presented to them over the past 150 years to survive, to sing, and to create new music on their own terms.

• List of FiguresTypographic conventions and stylePreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Rapanui Music in ContextChapter 1: Singing and SurvivalChapter 2: Religion and RenewalChapter 3: Chilean CultureChapter 4: Polynesian PathwaysChapter 5: Commercial ConnectionsEpilogue Glossary of Rapanui musical terms and cultural referencesReferences

Dan Bendrups is an ethnomusicologist who investigates the role of music in sustaining cultural heritage. His research spans communities and cultures in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific, as well as migrant communities in Australia and New Zealand. He lectures in research education and development at La Trobe University, Australia, where he is also a member of the La Trobe University Institute of Latin American Studies.

Bendrups weaves a remarkable story from historical sources and his own fieldwork that reveals how the people of Easter Island have used opportunities presented to them over the past 150 years to survive, to sing, and to create new music on their own terms.

• List of FiguresTypographic conventions and stylePreface and acknowledgements Introduction: Rapanui Music in ContextChapter 1: Singing and SurvivalChapter 2: Religion and RenewalChapter 3: Chilean CultureChapter 4: Polynesian PathwaysChapter 5: Commercial ConnectionsEpilogue Glossary of Rapanui musical terms and cultural referencesReferences