Music and Culture in South-East New Britain

Unesco Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music- Report on Field Research Conducted in August-October 1988

Wolfgang Laade (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

227 Seiten

2000
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-906760-41-4 (ISBN)

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The author has documented for the first time the music of the people of South-East New Britain: the Lote and Maenge (Mengen) of the coast and the Mamusi of the interior. Choral songs dominate; instrumental music consists of flute and panpipe tunes. Initiation and death ceremonies play a central role in these Melanesian societies.

The Author: Wolfgang Laade, born 1925 in Zeitz, Germany. Studied first music, then ethnomusicology, musicology, and anthropology in Berlin. Doctorate 1960. Musical research among little or undocumented ethnic groups in Lapland, Corsica, Tunisia, Australia, Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Taiwan, India, Zimbabwe.

Contents: The land and its history - History of research - The people of the South-East - Social organisation, economy, wealth and Big Men, spirits and charms - The Life Cycle and the big ceremonies - Children's games - Music and dance, musical and sound producing instruments - Folk tales.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.3.2000
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Schlagworte	1988 • August • Britain • choral songs • Conducted • Culture • East • Field • Hardcover, Softcover / Musik/Allgemeines, Lexika • HC/Musik/Allgemeines, Lexika • Laade • Melanesia • music • Oceanic • october • Ozeanien /Musik • Ozeanien /Volkskunde, Völkerkunde • panpipe • report • Research • South • Survey • territorial • the Lote • the Mamusi • UNESCO
ISBN-10	3-906760-41-3 / 3906760413
ISBN-13	978-3-906760-41-4 / 9783906760414
Zustand	Neuware