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. "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