Item details
Item ID
MW6-010
Title Radio Rabaul Recordings of Stringband Songs, Rabaul
Description Tape#2: Various Stringband recordings by Radio Rabaul.
Side A & B:

Collection of different string bands from villages, schools and Kurakakaul Plantation of Gazelle Peninsula (Recordings Cuts #1-7 songs)
The villages are Tolai stringbands and plantations mainly Kurakakaul are plantation labourers or field workers comprises people from Buka (Bouganville), Vitu (West New Britain), New Ireland, Sepik and songs are in Kuanua, Tok Pisin, English;

Newlands Stringband, Taulil Village "Rum Gat" or Guard House
Solo Guitarist Jubillee, Malakuna Village, Vunamami "Palanim Pamikeni" or Planting Pumkin vegetables
Blasius ToUna Stringband, Nodup Village "Letter bilong Jack" plus Jack's Letter and other Medley songs
Marmar Stringband "Go ra tinata i arikai goi marum" or the message coming out tonight.
NGI Stringband, Buka, Bouganville "Anita Goodybe"
Tauran Stringband "A kuuk"
Nonga Stringband "Mi harim tok"
Kurakakaul Stringband "Yu wok we?"
Kurakakaul Stringband "Everyone from Kurakakaul"
Kurakaul Stringband "Iau ga ki"
Kurakakaul Stringband "Wokabaut long Chinatown"
Kurakakaul Stringband "Long suga bay"
Tauran Stringband "Tubuna na Rabaul"

(Steven Gagau, May 2019)
Origination date 1993-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/010
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Region / village Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Various : singer
DOI 10.26278/C0TV-D511
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Various (singer), 1993. Radio Rabaul Recordings of Stringband Songs, Rabaul. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-010 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/C0TV-D511
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-010-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 27.5 MB 00:30:07.539
MW6-010-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 993 MB 00:30:07.519
MW6-010-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 28.9 MB 00:31:39.359
MW6-010-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.02 GB 00:31:39.359
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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)
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Access Information
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Michael Webb
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