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Latitude

-4.328645

Longitude

152.2095

Start Date

1993-07-23

End Date

1993-07-23

Tape#2: Musical Journey of Team Nanuk and Stringband songs (continued) Side A: General conversations on compositions and performances of stringband songs at "Cup Tea" events for music entertainment of people. The style of playing was strumming and not picking known as rough key of 5 key, spanish, blue mountain. The Team only used guitars and ukeleles' and no other traditional instruments like tidir. Composed songs were in Kuanua (Tok Ples) and from early missionaries of Pacific Islanders like Samoans and exposure of those who traveled or associated during the second world war like from Solomon Islands and Micronesia. Later Tok Pisin songs were composed. From musical history, A Bot songs (mixture of languages mainly New Ireland, Tok Pisin, Kuanua, Ramoania) during German colonial times and since first world war early 1900s' was common then. Later with introduction of guitars and ukelele led to creation of stringbands after the second world war late 1940s'. Songs are normally composes as "kakailai limlimbur" and not performing traditional songs like "malira" as needs to have permission or not allowed by the "tena buai" who composes songs for dance or "malagene" so not mixed in early times of stringband music. The three songs performed are; 1. A lili (Kuanua) 2. Sarere yu mas kam (Tok Pisin) 3. Team Nanuk i kamap pinis..malari avet (Tok Pisin/Kuanua) 4. Talaigu, dat a tur pa ra pilai (Kuanua) Female stringband teams only emerged in early 1970s' when the Tolai Warwagira Festival started and competitions were in team categories were male, female and mixed. Side B (blank) (Steven Gagau, February 2019)

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