A Sailing Canoe and Other Sorry Things: Anthropology of Contemporary Guitar Band Music in Peri-Urban Madang
| Author(s) | Suwa, Jun’ichirō en 諏訪, 淳一郎 |
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| Title | A Sailing Canoe and Other Sorry Things: Anthropology of Contemporary Guitar Band Music in Peri-Urban Madang |
| Publication Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Language | eng |
| Location | Papua New Guinea |
| Relevance to ICH Safeguarding | documentation transmission |
| ICH Genre | performing arts: music festive events worldview social practices |
| Keywords | stringband music Madang |
| Description | A consideration of the importance of sore singing ('sad/mourning songs') by people considered to be "peri-urban grassroots." "Peri-urban" refers to a local social formation that is communal, using precontact institutions such as land titles. They are "grassroots," representing the Melanesian population of the country. The complex traditional distribution of languages is particularly apparent around Madang town, where mourning songs performed by string bands have become very popular locally and nationally and have played a key role in the development of the recognition of a Madang style of singing. Such laments have become so prevalent that they are now also used at funerals. |
| Publisher | University of Tsukuba |
| Place of Publication | Tsukuba |
| Date of Publication | 1999 |
| Academic Field | ethnomusicology anthropology |
| Community/Ethnic Group | Yabob Madang |
| Contributor | Papua New Guinea National Cultural Commission |
| Active Contribution | Papua New Guinea, FY 2024 |
| Data Collection Project | |