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