Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands
Subtitle: studies in form, meaning, and sociocultural context
By: edited by Alan Rumsey & Don Niles
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Canberra, A.C.T
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781921862205; 9781921862212
Subjects: Enga (Papua New Guinean people); Huli (Papua New Guinean people); Social life and customs; Poetics; History and criticism; Ipili (Papua New Guinean people); Music; Epic poetry; Wola (Papua New Guinean people); Folk songs; Narrative poetry; Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people); Duna (Papua New Guinean people)
Notes: Supplementary illustrative material (audio, video, and PDF files) available online via the publisher's home page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also available as a PDF file via the publisher's home page.

In English; includes song texts or excerpts in various Papuan languages, generally with English translation.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Highlands sung tales / Don Niles and Alan Rumsey; title: Yuna pikono / Kenny Yuwi Kendoli; title: Music and language in Duna pikono / Kirsty Gillespie and Lila San Roque; title: Parallelism in Duna pikono / Michael Sollis; title: Sung tales in He la Hu li / Gabe C.J. Lomas; title: An ethnomusicological discussion of bi   te , the chanted tales of the Huli / Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan; title: Enga tindi pii : the real world and creative imagination / Philip Gibbs; title: Parallelism and poetics in in tindi narratives sung in the Ipili language / Terrance Borchard and Philip Gibbs; title: The structure of chanted Ipili tindi / Frances Ingemann; title: Skywalkers and cannibals : chanted tales among the Angal / Hans Reithofer; title: Style, plot and character in tom yaya tales from Ku Waru / Alan Rumsey; title: Metric melodies and the performance of sung tales in the Hagen area / Don Niles; title: Bamboo knives, bows, and waterfalls : the presentation of "traditional knowledge" in Melpa kang rom, Duna pikono, and the works of Hesiod and Virgil / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.