Doc.369, 'Yaqona chants'
Authors
Roth, George Kingsley
Publication Date
2013-03Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
Metadata
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Roth, G. K. (2013). Doc.369, 'Yaqona chants' [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244314
Description
.wav and .mp3 versions of audio file
Abstract
Recording of yaqona chants, 14 min 01 seconds.
1) Yaqona chant of the people of Serua, it is accompanied at the beginning and at the end by a gong beat called lali ni yaqona vaka turaga, July 1957. Arranged recording. [0.00 - 5.40]
2) Yaqona chant of the people of Bau, on the occasion of the Queen's visit. Suva, December 1953. Actuality record by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission (record made during the actual performance of a normal ceremony). [5.40 - 14.01] Fijian music, songs and dances, recorded by George Kingsley Roth in Fiji in the 1950s. Most of the material is original and was recorded in the field or at the studio of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission Suva. Some tracks are copies of recordings made by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission or the BBC.
Keywords
Roth, Fiji, music, song, dances
Spatial Coverage
Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Serua Oceania; Polynesia; Fiji; Suva
Temporal Coverage
December 1953 + July 57
Identifiers
This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244314
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
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