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MW6-058
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Title Traditional Tolai "Warbat" Songs of Bitavavar and Childrens' Choir of Volavolo
Description Tape#1, Traditional Tolai "Warbat" folk songs by Koniel Tamgoi of Bitavavar and Regina Tade's Childrens' Choir of Volavolo.
Side A Only (Side B Blank)

Koniel Tamgoi of Bitavavar Village in Kokopo District sings various solo "Warbat" songs, traditional Tolai folk song as a love ritual luring a woman to be attracted to the man in the subject of the song. The traditional musical instrument used is "tidir" a natural sounding object of a piece of bamboo beaten together as the background to the singing. Other participants in Philomen Tokilang and William Toligap were also present at the time of recording.
Regina Tade leads and conducts boys and girls in a children's choir of Grades 3 and 4 at Volavolo Community (Primary) School singing Kuanua and English songs of worship and praise of the Catholic Church.

(Steven Gagau, January 2019)
Origination date 1993-09-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/058
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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)
English - eng
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Content language(s)
English - eng
Kuanua - ksd
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect
Region / village Bitavavar, Kokopo, and Volavolo , Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Philemon ToKilang : participant
William Toligap : participant
Koniel Tamgoi : singer
Regina Tade : participant
DOI 10.26278/6SB6-P783
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Philemon ToKilang (participant), William Toligap (participant), Koniel Tamgoi (singer), Regina Tade (participant), 1993. Traditional Tolai "Warbat" Songs of Bitavavar and Childrens' Choir of Volavolo. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-058 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/6SB6-P783
Content Files (2)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-058-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 28.2 MB 00:30:51.9
MW6-058-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 1020 MB 00:30:51.9
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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 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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