Item details
Item ID
MW6-055
Title Interview and Performance by Team Nanuk (Continued), Nanuk
Description Tape#2: Musical Journey of Team Nanuk and Stringband songs (continued)
Side A:

General conversations on compositions and performances of stringband songs at "Cup Tea" events for music entertainment of people. The style of playing was strumming and not picking known as rough key of 5 key, spanish, blue mountain.

The Team only used guitars and ukeleles' and no other traditional instruments like tidir. Composed songs were in Kuanua (Tok Ples) and from early missionaries of Pacific Islanders like Samoans and exposure of those who traveled or associated during the second world war like from Solomon Islands and Micronesia. Later Tok Pisin songs were composed.
From musical history, A Bot songs (mixture of languages mainly New Ireland, Tok Pisin, Kuanua, Ramoania) during German colonial times and since first world war early 1900s' was common then. Later with introduction of guitars and ukelele led to creation of stringbands after the second world war late 1940s'.
Songs are normally composes as "kakailai limlimbur" and not performing traditional songs like "malira" as needs to have permission or not allowed by the "tena buai" who composes songs for dance or "malagene" so not mixed in early times of stringband music.

The three songs performed are;
1. A lili (Kuanua)
2. Sarere yu mas kam (Tok Pisin)
3. Team Nanuk i kamap pinis..malari avet (Tok Pisin/Kuanua)
4. Talaigu, dat a tur pa ra pilai (Kuanua)

Female stringband teams only emerged in early 1970s' when the Tolai Warwagira Festival started and competitions were in team categories were male, female and mixed.

Side B (blank)

(Steven Gagau, February 2019)
Origination date 1993-07-23
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/055
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Collector
Michael Webb
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Region / village Nanuk, Kokopo, East New Briatin Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Michael Webb : interviewer
Various : participant
DOI 10.26278/DWDS-AN54
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (interviewer), Various (participant), 1993. Interview and Performance by Team Nanuk (Continued), Nanuk. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-055 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/DWDS-AN54
Content Files (2)
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MW6-055-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 26.4 MB 00:28:50.900
MW6-055-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 951 MB 00:28:50.890
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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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