This is the first of two episodes featuring the PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra, a group of diaspora community members who share and perform the music of Central Province, Papua New Guinea. They respond to the PARADISEC collections MG1 and IC1

PNG: Central Province Music and Dance

Nov 11th, 2023 31m 34s

Following on from Episode 13, we continue our exploration of music of the Central Province, Papua New Guinea featuring the PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra. This is a special episode where the group responds to the PARADISEC collections of IC1

Buried in the Sand: Digging deep into Gudjal language and culture

Oct 19th, 2022 37m 48s

Episode 12: Buried in the Sand: Digging deep into Gudjal language and cultureWilliam Santo is a Gudjal elder, author and musician. Opening with William’s song, ‘Buried in the Sand’, this episode discusses William’s long-term aspiration to unco

True Echoes: Responding to Hula Songs from the Past

Aug 31st, 2022 35m 27s

Following on from episode 10, we continue discussions about early recordings made by Charles Gabriel Seligmann during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea in 1904. Deveni Temu brings his perspective to the history and con

True Echoes: Hula language and song

May 30th, 2022 36m 42s

Excerpts from and a discussion of 1904 wax cylinder recordings from the Hula village in the Rigo District of Papua New Guinea, with Hula speakers Roge and Gulea Kila. Produced in partnership with the British Library, Institute of Papua New Guin

Paama, Vanuatu, Sharks and shark spirits

Feb 15th, 2021 31m 8s

Johnny Obed and Kirk Huffman join Jodie and Steven discussing the cultural significance of sharks in Vanuatu and across Melanesia from the SD1 collection by Simon Devylder. The recordings inspired Johnny from Simon's research on shark spirits,

Sinaugoro, makes me think about my language

Feb 15th, 2021 34m 34s

Eileen Bobone and Mae Carroll join Jodie and Steven to talk about the 2020 Field Methods Lingusitics course conducted at the Australian National University in Canberra with a focus of the Sinaugoro language of the Rigo District of Central Provi

Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu, NT, Australia: Old ways for New Ceremonies

Feb 15th, 2021 27m 24s

Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu women Payi Linda Ford and Emily Tyaemaen Ford discuss the private archival collection LPF and the research journey through archival materials that lead to the creation of this repository of Murrunungu culture, language a

Fiji Hindi, Re-connecting with my Girmitiya Heritage

Feb 15th, 2021 19m 6s

Prash Krishnan joins Jodie and Steven to talk about the JS2 Collection deposited by researcher and Professor Jeff Siegel of the University of New England, NSW. Conversations with Jeff have helped Prash to better understand his journey to re-con

Rabaul, PNG: The Music

Nov 7th, 2019 33m 59s

Following on from the previous episode, this podcast is a kind of blindfold test as we listen to a range of musical examples Steven has chosen from the MW6 collection, recordings Michael has not heard for 25 years. The ensuing conversation high

Rabaul, PNG: The Researcher and the Tolai

Nov 7th, 2019 33m 48s

When Sydney Conservatorium Associate Professor Michael Webb met Steven Gagau, they quickly realised they had Tolai connections and Tok Pisin language in common. It turns out that Michael did his PhD research in the Rabaul region where Steven is

Paama, Vanuatu: This is gold to me

Oct 28th, 2019 28m 23s

Tom Johnny Obed is a Paamese man living in Sydney. He is an associate of Steven Gagau through the Wantok Association of Sydney, a representative body for Melanesian people living here. Johnny, as he likes to be known, met linguist Terry Crowley

Papunya, Australia: Just like a storybook

Oct 28th, 2019 23m 23s

We are transported to the Western Desert of Central Australia as Pintupi-Luritja woman Linda Tjungkata Anderson listens to her father Nosepeg Tjupurrula singing songs from the Wanji Wanji public song set recorded by musicologist Professor Richa

Trobriand Islands, PNG: Our Culture is Just a Heartbeat

Oct 28th, 2019 25m 4s

Grace Hull joins Jodie and Steven to talk about the RL1 collection recorded by Ralph Lawton in the Trobriand Islands, off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. Grace may live far from the village where she grew up, but she carries the village in

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