TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rumsey, Alan
AU  - Niles, Don
AB  - The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been noted by researchers working in the Highlands, and some recordings made of them, most of these genres have not been studied in detail until quite recently, mainly because of the challenging range of disciplinary expertise that is required—in anthropology, linguistics, and ethnomusicology. This volume presents a set of interrelated studies by researchers in all of those fields, and by a Papua New Guinea Highlander who has assisted with the research based on his lifelong familiarity with one of the regional genres. The studies presented here (all of them previously unpublished and written especially for this volume) are of groundbreaking significance not only for specialists in Melanesia or the Pacific, but also for readers with a more general interest in comparative poetics, mythology, musicology, or verbal art.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459753
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459753
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 724024104
KW  - papua new guinea
KW  - music
KW  - ethnology
KW  - songs
KW  - epic poetry
KW  - papua new guinea
KW  - music
KW  - ethnology
KW  - songs
KW  - epic poetry
KW  - Angal language
KW  - Ipili language
KW  - Karinj
KW  - Melody
KW  - Melpa language
KW  - Verb
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/72d6f009-bd59-4b86-bc1e-e0bde82e933c/459753.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33603
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2011
TI  - Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands : Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context
ER  - 
