1993_6_1_169: Monica’s wedding dance (Bethani III)
of University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, in The Raymond Clausen Archive, Recordings (1962), 9 mins
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Instrument(s) used: guitar 3 [necked box lute] tea-chest bass 3 [musical bow] spoons 1 [concussion idiophone]
- 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
1) Durei-na-mbwe, 'original' or 'common' formula [Clausen's terms]
2) Durei-na-mbwe, 'double semitone version', more difficult to sing.
3) Durei-na-mbwe, 'original' formula
4) Durei-na-mbwe, note that bird noises can be heard at the changeovers.
5) pop music from beach.
- Content Type
- Field recording (raw)
- Duration
- 9 mins
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Raymond Clausen, fl. 1960
- Format
- Audio
- Date Recorded
- 1978-09-09
- Release Date
- 1962
- Series Number
- Recordings
- Subject
- World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Cultural anthropology