Useful Links relating to the music of Papua New Guinea

CHM Supersound Studios

 

A commercial site provided by the well known CHM Recording Studio in Boroko, PNG. The site features recording artists performing PNG Reggae, Pacific Reggae, Tribal music, Pacific Popular music etc.

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Pacific Studies

This site includes Papua New Guinea in its archives.

Papua New Guinea Online - Music and Song

Part of the PNG homepage - a music link from it. It is still under construcion, but should be a good reference for the future.

Notes on music ecology as a new research paradigm

Research Paper on music Ecology. Nothing directly to do with PNG music, but a very thought-provoking paper (by Maria Anna Hartley, McGill University, Montreal) that emphasizes the holoistic perception and sonoristic approach to music study as well as focusing on the relationships between music and environment - in performance, compositional design and representation.

From Ethnomusicology to Echo-Muse-Ecology: Reading R. Murray Schafer in the Papua New Guinea Rainforest

Research/Theoretical Paper by Steven Feld on Papua New Guinea Musicology. Steven Feld is a Professor of Anthropology and Music, and Director of the Center for Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.