Item details
Item ID
MW6-019
Title Rabaul Various Collections (Continued)
Description Video Cassette Tape#2
Various music recordings at various locations in villages and churches and open areas with stringbands, power bands, choir singing and church services at events and special occasions in Rabaul and the communities of Gazelle Peninsla.

Stringband playing songs such as "Iron Man, ronowe", "Waltz ure iau, Ralum dance", "Bolbol na riban" and others.

Power (electric) band practicing some songs in Kuanua and some West Sepik (Sndaun) songs.

SDA Mission outreach event known as Pathfinders for children and Youth with choir performances, gospel band songs and some preaching and invitations for joining the Church.

United Church service with choir singing and items performed.

Singing of various traditional "Abot" songs. These performances are common to the Vunamami area of Kokopo.

Performance on various songs by a Women stringband. Dialect of Kuanua is most likely from the North Coast area.

A commemoration service by United Church at Tung na Parau and Taliligap area where on arrival of Fijian missionaries were killed in their work bringing christianity who accompanied pioneer Methodist missionary Dr George Brown to New Britain.

(Steven Gagau, May 2019)
Origination date 1993-03-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/019
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Dialect
Region / village Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories song
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Various : performer
DOI 10.26278/YQD9-CW06
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Various (performer), 1993. Rabaul Various Collections (Continued). MP4/MXF. MW6-019 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/YQD9-CW06
Content Files (2)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-019-01.mp4 video/mp4 1.88 GB 02:02:32.979
MW6-019-01.mxf application/mxf 69.5 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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