![]() ![]() Yet the payment also suggests that the tourists see this tradition as a commodity to be bought and sold, not as something that is lived in and passed down through community’s and family’s. The fact that the tourists pay the father and record his songs shows that even those without the same connection to tradition can sense that there is something significant about the wharf-the tourists want to make their own connect to this tradition. The father’s knowledge of old songs displays his connection to ancestors he’s never met and shows how the distant past, by being passed down through culture, can still influence the present. The father does not seek out the tourists as his daughters do, but neither does he refuse the request to take them on a boat and later sing for them. ![]() The sisters’ request for the father to take the tourists on the boat suggests that they are much more willing than the mother to blend the new with the old. The mother is so stubborn and devoted to her community that she refuses to accept any gifts that can be sourced back to money earned from outside the community. ![]()
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