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Title:Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands : studies in form, meaning, and sociocultural context
Contributor:Rumsey, Alan
Niles, Don
Date (W3CDTF):2011
Date Copyrighted:2011
Description:In English; includes song texts or excerpts in various Papuan languages, generally with English translation
Contains text in Duna, Huli, Ipili, Angal, Miyemu, and Medlpa
Includes bibliographical references and index
Supplementary illustrative material (audio, video, and PDF files) available online via the publisher's home page
Illustrative media files relating to this work : http://epress.anu.edu.au/sung_tales/media.html
Extent:xvi, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, music ; 25 cm
Format:unmediated
volume
Has Format:Also available as a PDF file via the publisher's home page
Identifier:ISBN: 9781921862205 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1921862203 (pbk.)
Identifier (URI):https://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3381696
http://epress.anu.edu.au/sung_tales/pdf/whole.pdf
Language:Papuan languages
English
Duna
Huli
Ipili
Angal
Bo-Ung
Melpa
Language (ISO639):paa
eng
duc
hui
ipi
age
mux
med
Publisher:Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
Spatial Coverage:a-pp---
Papua New Guinea
Subject:ML3758.P36S86 2011
781.629912
Subject (LCSH):Folk songs--Papua New Guinea--History and criticism
Duna (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Huli (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Enga (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Ipili (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Wola (Papua New Guinean people)--Music--History and criticism
Narrative poetry--History and criticism
Epic poetry--History and criticism
Poetics
Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs
Table Of Contents:Introducing Highlands sung tales /Don Niles and Alan Rumsey --Yuna pikono /Kenny Yuwi Kendoli --Music and language in Duna pikono /Kirsty Gillespie and Lila San Roque --Parallelism in Duna pikono /Michael Sollis --Sung tales in Héla Húli /Gabe C.J. Lomas --An ethnomusicological discussion of bì té, the chanted tales of the Huli /Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan --Enga tindi pii : the real world and creative imagination /Philip Gibbs --Parallelism and poetics in tindi narratives sung in the Ipili language /Terrance Borchard and Philip Gibbs --The structure of chanted Ipili tindi /Frances Ingemann --Skywalkers and cannibals : chanted tales among the Angal /Hans Reithofer --Style, plot and character in tom yaya tales from Ku Waru /Alan Rumsey --Metric melodies and the performance of sung tales in the Hagen area /Don Niles --Bamboo knives, bows, and waterfalls : the presentation of "traditional knowledge" in Melpa kang rom, Duna pikono, and the works of Hesiod and Virgil /Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
Type:text
Type (DCMI):Text

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Citation: Rumsey, Alan; Niles, Don. 2011. Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press.
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