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Hearing the Future : The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band /
During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named 'Sanguma'. These artists heard an imag...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named 'Sanguma'. These artists heard an imagined future and performed it during a socially and politically critical time for the region. They were united under one goal: to create a sound that represented the birth of a new, sovereign, and distinctly Melanesian nation; and to express their values, identities, and cosmology through their music and performance. Sanguma's experimental music sounded the complex expectations and pressures of their modern nation and helped to steer its postcolonial journey through music. In 'Hearing the Future', Denis Crowdy documents and analyzes the music and activities of the Sanguma band. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations, music |
| ISBN: | 9780824858209 |