Item details
Item ID
MW6-013
Title Vunairoto Jubilee and Jack Tonga Guitar Tunings
Description Video Casette Tape#1 Recordings

Vunairoto Jubilee:
Recordings of Choral Festival competition of Jubilee celebrations of George Brown Day in 1993. Dr George Brown was the first Protestant Christian missionary who brought the relogion and faith into the New Guinea Islands of PNG and landed on New Britain starting from Duke of York Islands, then Gazelle Peninsula the across the region. He represented missionaries of the churches of Methodist, Wesley Mission and London Missionary Society.
Various choirs from different parts of the Gazelle Peninsula participate in all categories from schools, church congregations and villages in sections of children, youth, male, female and mixed voices.
In the festivals, songs are set prior o choirs entering mainly is Kuanua and English for the singing competition. The Choir conductors are both male and female in these categories of the competition.

Jack Tonga Guitar Tunings:
Recording of Jack playing his guitar picking the strings from older style of guitar playing namely 5 key and blue mountain however modified or personalised with own styles of play the guitar. At this time, he had lost his singing voice due to some magical spell on his due to jealousy of his talents.

(Steven Gagau, May 2019)
Origination date 1993-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/013
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Language as given
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Dialect
Region / village Vunairoto, Kabakada, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories song
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type singing
Roles Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous : singer
Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Jack Tonga : performer
DOI 10.26278/14SX-K777
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Various - Anonymous Various - Anonymous (singer), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Jack Tonga (performer), 1993. Vunairoto Jubilee and Jack Tonga Guitar Tunings. MP4/MXF. MW6-013 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/14SX-K777
Content Files (2)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-013-01.mp4 video/mp4 1.79 GB 01:56:10.109
MW6-013-01.mxf application/mxf 65.1 GB
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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
Edit access Jodie Kell
Steven Gagau
Michael Webb
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Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
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