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Item ID
MW6-007
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Title Music of New Guinea, String Band and Choral
Description Tape# 1, Various Choral, Traditional Singing and Stringbands

Side A: Series of singing and stringbands in various languages of PNG. The first 6 songs were male singers in Kuanua language with songs Abot, Palume, Tingtiding, Pur matam, Ai ra minat, A Kuvur i tangtangi. They are folksongs singing about general nature and village livelihood in coastal areas, travelling around, dancing, birds, sorrows over deaths. General stringbands and singing of traditional songs follow on from Milne Bay and Central Province.

Side B: Series of songs and stringbands of Highlands and Central Province mainly with Motuan villages

(Steven Gagau, January 2019)
Origination date 1993-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/007
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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
Mekeo - mek
Motu - meu
Saliba - sbe
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Content language(s)
Kuanua - ksd
Mekeo - mek
Motu - meu
Saliba - sbe
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Dialect
Region / village East New Britain, Milne Bay, Central Provinces and Highlands Region.
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories instrumental music
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
DOI 10.26278/DCJ4-7W13
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), 1993. Music of New Guinea, String Band and Choral . MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-007 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/DCJ4-7W13
Content Files (4)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-007-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 27.2 MB 00:29:46.69
MW6-007-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 981 MB 00:29:46.49
MW6-007-B.mp3 audio/mpeg 26.2 MB 00:28:40.140
MW6-007-B.wav audio/vnd.wav 945 MB 00:28:40.119
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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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