Bamboo Flutes, Music Shift, and the End of Groove in an East Sepik Community

Issue Date: 
2013
Publisher: 
Language and Linguistics in Melanesia
Is Part Of Series: 
Language & Linguistics in Melanesia, 31:2
Extent: 
17 pages
Abstract: 
Having adapted sociolinguistic survey tools to investigate the downward trajectory of traditional musics in a Sepik community, I now look into Charles Keil's concept of groove as a way of showing what is being lost with the disappearance of this and other indigenous musics
Publication Status: 
Published
Country: 
Papua New Guinea
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Entry Number: 
58871