Nabu - Music of New Guinea, String Band and Choral

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Item details

Item ID	MW6-007 (Collection Details)
Title	Music of New Guinea, String Band and Choral
Description	Tape# 1, Various Choral, Traditional Singing and Stringbands Side A: Series of singing and stringbands in various languages of PNG. The first 6 songs were male singers in Kuanua language with songs Abot, Palume, Tingtiding, Pur matam, Ai ra minat, A Kuvur i tangtangi. They are folksongs singing about general nature and village livelihood in coastal areas, travelling around, dancing, birds, sorrows over deaths. General stringbands and singing of traditional songs follow on from Milne Bay and Central Province. Side B: Series of songs and stringbands of Highlands and Central Province mainly with Motuan villages (Steven Gagau, January 2019)
Origination date	1993-01-01
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Archive link	https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/007
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Collector	Michael Webb Find similar
Countries	Papua New Guinea - PG To view related information on a country, click its name
Language as given
Subject language(s)	Kuanua - ksd Mekeo - mek Motu - meu Saliba - sbe Tok Pisin - tpi To view related information on a language, click its name
Content language(s)	Kuanua - ksd Mekeo - mek Motu - meu Saliba - sbe Tok Pisin - tpi To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect
Region / village	East New Britain, Milne Bay, Central Provinces and Highlands Region.

Originating university	University of Sydney
Operator	Jodie Kell
Data Categories	instrumental music
Data Types	Sound
Discourse type	singing
Roles	Steven Gagau : data_inputter
DOI	10.26278/DCJ4-7W13
Cite as	Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), 1993. Music of New Guinea, String Band and Choral . MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-007 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/DCJ4-7W13

Content Files (4)

Filename	Type	File size	Duration	File access
MW6-007-A.mp3	audio/mpeg	27.2 MB	00:29:46.69
MW6-007-A.wav	audio/vnd.wav	981 MB	00:29:46.49
MW6-007-B.mp3	audio/mpeg	26.2 MB	00:28:40.140
MW6-007-B.wav	audio/vnd.wav	945 MB	00:28:40.119
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Collection Information

Collection ID	MW6
Collection title	Music in Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP and New Guinea Islands Region (ca. 1950s - 1990s)
Description	Recordings of a wide range of music in Rabaul 1950s-1990s covering areas of the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province and the New Guinea Islands Region. This collection was the PhD research work by Dr Michael Webb focused on music of Melanesia in the Pacific. This collection was located as a result of PARADISEC's 'Lost and Found' project and digitisation was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Note: This video recording on Item MW6-012 labelled Queens Birthday Singsing, Rabaul in 1993 was unable to be digitised due to poor quality of tape so deleted from collection. (Steven Gagau)
Countries	Australia - AU New Caledonia - NC Papua New Guinea - PG To view related information on a country, click its name
Languages	English - eng French - fra Hakö - hao Halia - hla Kuanua - ksd Mekeo - mek Motu - meu Ramoaaina - rai Saliba - sbe Sursurunga - sgz Siar-Lak - sjr Solos - sol Teop - tio Tok Pisin - tpi Taulil - tuh Undetermined language - und Warwar Feni - hrw To view related information on a language, click its name

Access Information

Edit access	Steven Gagau Michael Webb
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Data access conditions	Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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