Nabu - Interview with three members of Gulf Province band, Lamaika, PGS, Rabaul

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Item details

Item ID	MW6-025 (Collection Details)
Title	Interview with three members of Gulf Province band, Lamaika, PGS, Rabaul
Description	Tape#1: Side A&B - Lamaika Band of Port Moresby Lamaika band members in Oma Ditavaru, Timmy Saroa and Fred Mai and David Sera are based in Port Moresby and were in Rabaul at the time of interview. The members come from Kerema, Gulf Province and live in Port Moresby and all relatives so they formed the band. They describe how Lamaika started as a stringband in the 1980s and continued into a PNG rock band into the 1990s'. The band focuses on traditional songs "singsing tubuna" and Tok Pisin from Gulf Province and has had cassette recordings of up to 5 albums with Pacific Gold Studios in Port Moresby and Rabaul. The band broke up and the reformed under new name as "Stage Lamaika" The style of band music is reggae and rock and composed about life of people, nature and community living and experiences with inclusion of customary songs blended with modern musical instruments. (Steven Gagau, October 2019)
Origination date	1993-03-23
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Archive link	https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/025
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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)	Tok Pisin - tpi To view related information on a language, click its name
Content language(s)	Tok Pisin - tpi To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect
Region / village	Rabaul, ENB Province and Port Moresby, NCD

Originating university
Operator	Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories	historical reconstruction
Data Types	Sound
Discourse type	interactive_discourse
Roles	Steven Gagau : data_inputter Oma Ditavaru : speaker Timmy Saroa : speaker Fred Mai : speaker
DOI	10.26278/6BJQ-1R21
Cite as	Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Oma Ditavaru (speaker), Timmy Saroa (speaker), Fred Mai (speaker), 1993. Interview with three members of Gulf Province band, Lamaika, PGS, Rabaul. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-025 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/6BJQ-1R21

Content Files (4)

Filename	Type	File size	Duration	File access
MW6-025-A.mp3	audio/mpeg	28.7 MB	00:31:27.59
MW6-025-A.wav	audio/vnd.wav	1.01 GB	00:31:27.49
MW6-025-B.mp3	audio/mpeg	3.7 MB	00:04:02.573
MW6-025-B.wav	audio/vnd.wav	133 MB	00:04:02.562
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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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