Map of Tonga. Shows the different groups in the Friendly Islands.

South Pacific Travel Guides: Tonga-Samoa. General information and frequently asked questions about Tonga from David Stanley's South Pacific Organizer site.

Bibliography of Tonga, by Helen Morton, LaTrobe University. This document is a part of a larger collection of the AnthroGlobe specialist bibliographies, and a subsection of the Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library. Includes references to published sources, manuscripts, theses, and internet resources.

Our People, Our Treasure, Our Export. 1995 press release from the Tonga Statistics Dept. on populations of Tongans residing outside of Tonga, posted on Tonga on the Net.

Faiva 'o Tonga / Dances of Tonga. Site created by Anthony Master Tu'iono, Senior Computer Programmer at the Ministry of Education, Tonga, and based on the work of anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler. A great site with pictures and descriptions of eight different dances.

LESSON 21 OCEANIA 2: West Polynesia, Tonga 1. A unit on Tongan music and dance, for the course "Music Cultures of the World" taught by Dr. Dale Olsen at Florida State University.

Tongan Dancing: Siueli oe Pasifika (Jewel of the Pacific Tongan Cultural Group) . Contains brief description of Tongan dancing and a dance troupe based in New Zealand.

Tongan Musical Instruments. Describes musical instruments found in Tongan music. This information is a synopsis from the book Tongan Music by Richard Moyle, published by Auckland University Press (1987).

Tongan History Association. The site includes background information leading to the establishment of the Tongan History Association by a group of scholars at Australian National University, and useful links to Tongan and Pacific sites. Also included are back issues of the association's newsletter. The April 1994 issue (vol. 5 no. 1) contains scholarly reviews of two CDs, Malie! Beautiful! Dance Music of Tonga (Pan 2011 CD, 1992) and Faikava: The Tongan Kava Circle (Pan 2022 CD, 1993) by Thomas Malm of University of Lund, Sweden.

Tongan MP3 Music. Contains MP3 files for the "National Anthem of Tonga" by the Royal Maopi Choir, "Polynesian Brass Dance" by the Royal Brass Band, and "Heavenly Peace" by the Queen Salote College Choir.

Tongan Music & Songs on Compact Disk and Cassette. Available from Look Sharp, a business based in Nuku'alofa. Website displays CD covers of current Tongan music recordings

FobStyle Productions. A record company based in La'ie, Hawai'i, specializing in Tongan music. The site includes a link to "Fobstyle Radio," playing "the finest selection of traditional Tongan music 24 hours a day without interruption".

Mutiana Productions. Tongan musicians Dallin and Tia are based at Polynesian Cultural Center. Includes sound files from their two CD releases 'Ofa Ho Fofonga and A Polynesian Tribute.

Ulise. Popular Tongan recording artist. Click here for soundclips from his CD Love is All We Need (Olinda Road, 1997).

-- Erin Pons

Sound Recordings

• Afo 'o e 'ofa: Strings of Love. Pan 2088CD, 1997.
• Faikava: The Tongan Kava Circle Pan 2022CD, 1993.
• Ifi Palasa: Tongan Brass. Pan 2044CD, 1994.
• Ko 'E Temipale / The Holy Temple: Church Music of Tonga. Pan 7007CD, 1996.
• Malie! Beautiful! Dance Music of Tonga. Pan 2011CD, 1992.
• Music of Polynesia IV: Samoa, Tonga. JVC World Sounds Special, VICG-5274-2, 1994. Tracks 12-18 include three tauolunga, a kailao, and a 'otuhaka.

Videotapes

• Horizon: Where the Sea Meets the Sky. Polynesian Cultural Center, 1996. The Tongan segment of this night show production includes a kailao and a lakalaka.
• The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance. Vol. 30: Oceania II. Items 13 through 17, excerpts of ula, ma'ulu'ulu, me'etu'upaki, and lakalaka.

Some Bibliographic Sources

• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Aesthetics of Tongan Dance." Ethnomusicology 15 (1971), 175-185.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Dance and the Interpretation of Pacific Traditional Literature." In Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature: Essays in Honor of Katharine Luomala, ed. Adrienne L. Kaeppler and H. Arlo Nimmo, pp. 195-216. Bishop Museum Special Publication 62. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1976.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Melody, Drone, and Decoration: Underlying Structures and Surface Manifestations in Tonga Art and Society." In Art in Society: Studies in Styles, Culture and Aesthetics, ed. Michael Greenhalgh and Vincent Megaw, pp. 261-274. London: Duckworth, 1978.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Method and Theory in Analyzing Dance Structure with an Analysis of Tongan Dance. Ethnomusicology 16 (1972), 173-217.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. Poetry in Motion: Studies of Tongan Dance. Tonga: Vava'u Press, 1993.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Polynesian Dance as 'Airport Art'." In Asian and Pacific Dance: Selected Papers from the 1974 CORD Conference. CORD Research Annual 7 (1977), 71-84.
• Adrienne L. Kaeppler. "Structured Movement Systems in Tonga." In Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Performance and Process, ed. Paul Spencer, pp. 92-118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Ad Linkels. Sounds of Change in Tonga: Dance, Music and Cultural Dynamics in a Polynesian Kingdom. Tilberg: Mundo Etnico Foundation, 1998.
• Richard Moyle. Tongan Music. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 1987.
• Larry V. Shumway. "The Tongan Lakalaka: Music Composition and Style." Ethnomusicology 25 (1981), 467-479.