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Title Spirit of Melanesia [sound recording].

Imprint Wotton-under-Edge, England : Saydisc ; [New York] : Qualiton Imports [distributor], p1998.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 GDL Brand Library Music Compact Disc    Q ASIA SM F18CD    Available
Description 1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 011909
Note Traditional music from Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, & Papua New Guinea.
Distributor from label on container.
Compact disc.
Program notes by David Fanshawe and notes on the ethnographer (23 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents Sepik flutes Kanengara (2:30) -- Pan pipes of Buma (1:05) -- Club dance, Meke iwau (3:08) -- Meke rara nakelo (1:55) -- Meke seāseā : standing dance (2:36) -- Vakamalolo : sitting dance (2:34) -- Nabua Methodist Church Choir (3:02) -- New Year celebrations (2:10) -- Grog song Lakeba (2:23) -- Singera string band (2:42) -- Naghol land diving (2:28) -- Lifou mouth pipes (1:12) -- Spirit song U'ula (2:27) -- Shell money making (1:24) -- Spirit song "ia ia ia" (2:39) -- Gilo stones (1:23) -- Pan pipes "The awakening" (1:48) -- Funeral song (1:27) -- Karop pipes, mouth harp, dance (2:09) -- Yule Island festivities (2:17) -- Mount Hagan singsing (1:58) -- Mendi girls chant Alipuli (:57) -- Wagi Brothers bamboo band (2:15) -- Rymoka string band (2:40) -- Karawari initiation (1:54) -- Sepik flutes Sangriman, Kamanibit (2:41) -- Timbunke garamut drums (1:43) -- Wundubu bangu ceremony (3:20) -- Kanengara singsing apunivur (1:23) -- Kanengara war dance (2:42) -- Bisorio house building ; Kilao war party (3:31) -- Singsing Bodif headhunting (1:48) -- Waskuk yam harvesting (2:04) -- Misa Yaroma Wewak (3:06) -- Mariway flutes "Secret place" (3:48).
Credits Producer, Gef Lucena.
Performer Native performers.
Event Recorded in the Pacific by David Fanshawe, 1978-1994.
Language Sung in various languages.
Subject Folk music -- Melanesia.
Folk music -- Papua New Guinea.
Folk dance music -- Melanesia.
Folk dance music -- Papua New Guinea.
Folk songs -- Melanesia.
Folk songs -- Papua New Guinea.
Melanesians -- Melanesia -- Music.
Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Music.
Added Author Fanshawe, David, 1942-2010- Compiler.
Standard No. 5013133441829
789368811724
Music No. CD-SDL 418 Saydisc

 
    
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