True…. there are other songs in Tetun on YouTube that are more in the model of what I think of as Japanese enka --like French chansons, I guess--which I suppose must be modeled on something Portuguese? And reggae and Cuban music seem to have been popular for decades. But you still get plenty of traditional dances and drumming (judging from what I heard in Ainaro, anyway).
Here's the resistance song "Eh Foho Ramelau" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAOZOHD2lT0) and here's Kolelei Mai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_dM225sLUc), which was also sung as a resistance song.
Watching that second one… the live footage is from 2002. Makes me feel all choked up.
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Here's the resistance song "Eh Foho Ramelau" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAOZOHD2lT0) and here's Kolelei Mai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_dM225sLUc), which was also sung as a resistance song.
Watching that second one… the live footage is from 2002. Makes me feel all choked up.