Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kama-wosi.html Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands (Kiriwina Islands) is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important part of Trobriand music, and although everyone may compose and sing, people with special talents are encouraged to develop their skills. A range of songs are filmed and translated here: gardening and sailing songs, kula trading songs, songs of love and enticement, of grief and mourning. The film also reveals glimpses of everyday and ritual life: villages, gardens (and their magic), exchange, harvest dances, children in the rain.

a film by Les McLaren
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Trobriand
• Islands
• Kiriwina
• New
• Guinea
• music
• tradition
• ethnomusicology
• song
• ritual
• documentary
• anthropology

[Mwasita]

Tau yakida. paisewa deli wosi kadavavagi...... great people they are...Singer, Sibwagau had passed away long since

[123456789qwertyqaz]

haha, abit exaggerated but the "style" is very much for real... my dad, still does his little "chant-ish" stuff when his reading the paper...LOL.. far out, i miss home.

[iamtheverybestohyea]

@Wigerleo its good that haven't

[Wigerleo]

I am so fond of the Trobriands althoug I have never been there. Whish I had...

[Melanesiangiirl]

Thanks 4 posting this video. Trobs is my home and have been away for years. Miss it so much=(