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MW6-024
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Title Traditional 'ABot' Songs by Pilemon ToKilang, Bitavavar, Kokopo
Description Tape#1: Various Traditional 'Abot' Songs led by Pilemon ToKilang

Side A&B:
The 'Abot' songs are traditional Tolai music of singing and chanting with a tune or style typically with other similar songs like Warbat, Lili but expressed in middle language to others in the meaning of stories or events in songs so mainly in Tok Pisin rather than Kuanua.
The songs cover places in New Ireland, Duke of York Islands and Gazelle Peninsula and typical examples are; Stories of travels in places of Kavieng, Namatanai, Tanga, Siar (New Ireland), Use of Time in Mioko/Makada (Duke of York Islands), Doctors working at hospitals (Rapidik/Rabaul), Boat Captain (Rabaul/Kokopo), Woman of Rabaul (Nodup/Namanula). Song names include "marmari, al mari", "meri Rabaul", "ToMaidang", "wan kilok taem", "lapun meri". Other songs discussed were "Te England" (Englishman), "balus America" (American plane, "Siapan" (Japanese).

(Steven Gagau, March 2019)
Origination date 1993-03-21
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/024
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Language as given
Subject language(s)
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Content language(s)
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect
Region / village Bitavavar, Kokopo, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Various - Anonymous Various - Ananymous : singer
Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Michael Webb : researcher
Pilemon ToKilang : singer
DOI 10.26278/ZBCS-F191
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Various - Anonymous Various - Ananymous (singer), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (researcher), Pilemon ToKilang (singer), 1993. Traditional 'ABot' Songs by Pilemon ToKilang, Bitavavar, Kokopo. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-024 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/ZBCS-F191
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-024-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 29 MB 00:31:45.819
MW6-024-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1.02 GB 00:31:45.799
MW6-024-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 5.79 MB 00:06:20.81
MW6-024-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 209 MB 00:06:20.53
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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
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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
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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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