Item details
Item ID
MW6-049
Title Interview with George Telek, CHM Studios, Rabaul
Description Tape#1: George Telek Songs Collaborations and Interviews.

Side A:
Music samples from "Tabaran" Album with David Bridie from Melbourne based based band "Not Drowning, Waving" featuring Telek and musicians of Rabaul, PNG.

Side B:
Telek collaborated his music styles, beats, rythums and songs with David Bridie's band "Not Drowning, Waving". Telek worked with David with songs and vocals with band music covering blend and mixture from traditional and ethnic, country, pop, island reggae styles.
The song "Anita" originally composed by Telek was later recorded with John Wong .
Telek's sings his composed song in first verse "A Midal" which relates to the type of traditional "malira and warbat" song of the Tolai people of Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP.

(Steven Gagau, June 2019)
Origination date 1993-06-24
Origination date free form 24 June 1993
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/049
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Region / village Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories historical text
primary text
song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Michael Webb : interviewer
George Telek : speaker
George Telek : singer
David Bridie : participant
DOI 10.26278/18S2-6410
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (interviewer), George Telek (speaker, singer), David Bridie (participant), 1993. Interview with George Telek, CHM Studios, Rabaul. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-049 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/18S2-6410
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-049-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 12.8 MB 00:14:01.326
MW6-049-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 462 MB 00:14:01.308
MW6-049-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 11.3 MB 00:12:23.731
MW6-049-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 409 MB 00:12:23.711
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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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