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MW6-025
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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
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/025
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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)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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Content language(s)
Tok Pisin - tpi
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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
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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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