Editing Nauru (section)

===Music===
Nauruan folk songs existed as of 1970,<ref>{{cite book |last= Viviani |first= Nancy |date= 1970 |title= Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress |url= https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114914/2/b11197110.pdf |location= [[Canberra]] |publisher= [[ANU Press]] |page= 158 |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 29 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200129233650/https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114914/2/b11197110.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> while ''Oh Bwio Eben Bwio'' is a noticeable folk song.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=4338 |title= Songs & Rhymes From Nauru |author= <!--Not stated--> |website= Mama Lisa's World |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 8 May 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230508212948/https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=4338 |url-status= live }}</ref> While the traditional culture rapidly gives way to the contemporary, as elsewhere in Micronesia, music and dance are still some of the most popular art forms. Rhythmic singing and traditional ''reigen''{{#tag:ref|Indirectly influenced by German colonialism, [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reigen reigen] in this cultural context is a German word that implies styles of circular-moving dances in Nauru's historical past, implying that historical Nauruan traditional dances tend to be informal.<ref>{{cite book |last= Fabricius |first= Wilhelm |author-link=  |date= 1992 |title= Nauru: 1888–1900: An account in German and English based on official records of the Colonial Section of the German Foreign Office held by the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam. |url= https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/132630/1/JPH_Nauru.pdf |location= [[Canberra]] |publisher= [[Australian National University]] |page= 271 |isbn= 978-0731513673 |quote= The Nauruan dances which I have seen are not notable for their wealth of distinct figures. They are accompanied by singing and consist in tripping to and fro, swaying the body, slapping the thighs and chest and making turns. |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 27 March 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230327135944/https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/132630/1/JPH_Nauru.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>|group=n}} are performed particularly at celebrations. At least, a historical form of a Nauruan dance called ''fish dance'' in English was recorded in a form of photographs.<ref>{{cite book |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 2014 |title= Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lOqmBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |location= [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] |publisher= [[Cambridge Scholars Publishing]] |page= 159 |isbn= 978-1443871006 |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240418040949/https://books.google.com/books?id=lOqmBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Oates |first= John F. |date= 1999-10-19 |title= Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=x2GZH7mssNcC&pg=PR11 |location= [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] |publisher= [[University of California Press]] |page= XI |isbn= 978-0520222526 |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240418041010/https://books.google.com/books?id=x2GZH7mssNcC&pg=PR11 |url-status= live }}</ref> Known contemporary dances are the frigate bird dance and the dogoropa.<ref>{{cite book |author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 2017 |title= The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands Vol.9 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HB03DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT450 |location= [[Milton Park]] |publisher= [[Taylor & Francis]] |page= 450 |isbn= 978-1351544320 |quote= At the Pacific Festival of Arts in 1985 and 1988, sixth-graders at the Nauru Primary School presented the frigate bird (''iti''), a Nauruan dance. The students practiced daily for two months. The boys clapped and sang while the girls danced, por-traying te birds' flight and perching.... In 1994, at the Children's Convention in Fukuoka, Japan, ten eleven-year-old boys and girls from Nauru performed the ''dogoropa'', a dance with sticks, which men and women from Nauru had performed at the Festival of Arts in 1980. |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240418041011/https://books.google.com/books?id=HB03DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT450 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://2012expo.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/d-5-lets-meet-the-world-nauru/ |title= Let's Meet the World: Nauru |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 2012-08-07 |website=  |publisher= Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea |access-date= 18 April 2024 |archive-date= 27 March 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230327141618/https://2012expo.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/d-5-lets-meet-the-world-nauru/ |url-status= live }}</ref>

The [[national anthem]] of Nauru is "[[Nauru Bwiema]]" ("Song of Nauru").<ref>{{Cite web |title=National anthem – The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/national-anthem |access-date=2024-02-06 |publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]] |archive-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319002941/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/national-anthem |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Margaret Hendrie]] wrote the words; [[Laurence Henry Hicks]] composed the music.