Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands : studies in form, meaning, and sociocultural context

In English; includes song texts or excerpts in various Papuan languages, generally with English translation ; Contains text in Duna, Huli, Ipili, Angal, Miyemu, and Medlpa ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Supplementary illustrative material (audio, video, and PDF files) available online via the publisher's home page ; Illustrative media files relating to this work : http://epress.anu.edu.au/sung_tales/media.html ; Introducing Highlands sung tales /Don Niles and Alan Rumsey --Yuna pikono /Kenny Yuwi Kendoli --Music and language in Duna pikono /Kirsty Gillespie and Lila San Roque --Parallelism in Duna pikono /Michael Sollis --Sung tales in Héla Húli /Gabe C.J. Lomas --An ethnomusicological discussion of bì té, the chanted tales of the Huli /Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan --Enga tindi pii : the real world and creative imagination /Philip Gibbs --Parallelism and poetics in tindi narratives sung in the Ipili language /Terrance Borchard and Philip Gibbs --The structure of chanted Ipili tindi /Frances Ingemann --Skywalkers and cannibals : chanted tales among the Angal /Hans Reithofer --Style, plot and character in tom yaya tales from Ku Waru /Alan Rumsey --Metric melodies and the performance of sung tales in the Hagen area /Don Niles --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