Steep slopes : music and change in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Kirsty Gillespie.
Material type: TextSeries: Monographs in anthropologyPublisher: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource : text files, pdf files, and audio filesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781921666438
- 1921666439
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people) -- Music
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
- Papua New Guinea -- Songs and music
- MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology
- Ethnic studies
- Music
- Social groups
- Society and culture: general
- Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
- The arts
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people)
- Papua New Guinea
- Ethnography
- Music
- Duna
- Social life
- Customs
- Papua new guinea
- 780.956 22
- ML3775.P3 G55 2010
Includes bibliographical references.
Duna ancestral music -- Music and encounter -- Mourning and song -- Land and song -- Courting and song -- Creativity and preservation.
"This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time. New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions have been altered or even abandoned. This study shows how, through musical creativity, Duna people maintain a connection with their past, and their identity, whilst simultaneously embracing the challenges of the present."--Publisher's description
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English.
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