Steep slopes [electronic resource] : music and change in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Kirsty Gillespie.

"This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time. New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions hav...

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Main Author: Gillespie, Kirsty
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2010.
Series:Monographs in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Duna ancestral music
  • Music and encounter
  • Mourning and song
  • Land and song
  • Courting and song
  • Creativity and preservation.