1993_6_1_1: Clausen Reel Tape I
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Instrument(s) used: Korr’korr 1 [slit drum]
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Copyright Message
- Material sourced from the Raymond Clausen Archive, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Copyright © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
- Description
Notes on reel to reel box (MS ink) 'I Vila & Wala'
Notes on slip of paper inside reel to reel box (MS pencil) 'Vila & Wala I. Rec. Aux B.C. Full track 7 1/2 i.p.s. Drunken Hymns and 1 quasi Poly-Solo. Wala. First recording in Toby's hut. D.N songs + conch tapping.? Ambel, Winsi, Sam (?). Words in language and French/ + Guitar song (Cassi).378 Gabriel: stroy + song about Maki (kuku go Muli). E F G (?B) C. 478. (?) Winsi Guitar song.'
Notes from previous database created by Tina Stoeklin in March 1997 in March 1997 'Patterns for upright slit-drums (Miren and Werum) played on the korr'korr. Tracks include: (recorded on Vila) 1) De Gaulle song - farewell song for Paris, because the Germans are there. 2) New Caledonian song - more than 200 years old and words not understood by singers. 3) Efate song - about past. 4) Fijian song (recorded in Tobi's hut, Porton, Wala). 5) First recording on Wala, an acquaintance song. 6) Tobi's song. 7) Cyrillo's (Tobi's uncle) Durei-na-mbwe. 8) Dunen - song tells story of the building of Tobi's father's house, called Lolamil. He (Tobi's father) killed 100 pigs to celebrate its erection at Palu-Wen, with dances and drums. Without this ceremony, no one can eat in the house or otherwise use it. 9) Cassimir's song: tells the story of when he was young, he asked his Bapu (father's father) for permission to smoke. 10) Nu-welen (dance) recorded 10 January 1961' [NL, 23/04/2013]
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 25 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Raymond Clausen, fl. 1960
- Format
- Audio
- Date Recorded
- 1976-12-31
- Release Date
- 1961
- Series Number
- Recordings
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Cultural anthropology