Author: Laade, Wolfgang. Title: Music and culture in South-East New Britain : Unesco Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music : report on field research conducted in August-October 1988.
Description: Bern : Peter Lang, c1998. Paperback. 227 pp. 30 unnumbered p. of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - 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. ISBN 9783906760414.
Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGY, Papua New Guinea
Price: EUR 50.00 = appr. US$ 54.34 Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
- Book number: %23295925