Music and Culture in South-East New Britain: Unesco Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music: Report on Field Research conducted in August-October 1988

Product Description The author has documented for the first time the music of the people of South-East New Britain: the Lote and Maenge (Mengen) of the coast and the Mamusi of the interior. Choral songs dominate; instrumental music consists of flute and panpipe tunes. Initiation and death ceremonies play a central role in these Melanesian societies. About the Author The Author: Wolfgang Laade, born 1925 in Zeitz, Germany. Studied first music, then ethnomusicology, musicology, and anthropology in Berlin. Doctorate 1960. Musical research among little or undocumented ethnic groups in Lapland, Corsica, Tunisia, Australia, Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Taiwan, India, Zimbabwe.