Maluku

The earliest written source referring to the music cultures of northern and central Maluku was a set of volumes about the Indonesian archipelago by the Dutch traveler François Valentijn (1724–26). Thereafter, the most useful sources include descriptions of the indigenous and European-influenced music and dance in Ambon by the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1869). A Dutch study of Malay songs and dances in Ambon and the Uliase Archipelago was published by was published by ...