Context (CMS Context)
This tape is referenced as 'B. DANCE GONGS (a), STAMPING TUBES (b), HANDCLAPPING (c), SONGS. KANDAVU (Rakiraki) specially recorded: (1) (a) and (b) and (c), October, 1955. (2) (a) and (c), October, 1955. 003-351. Stamping tubes from: NAITASIRI, Confederation of Lutu, 351-431. SERUA, 433-560. Specially recorded at Suva, August 1957.' (see Roth's original list, MAA, Doc.385).
17/01/2013
Created by: Lucie Carreau on 17/01/2013

Context (CMS Context)
This audio recording belongs to a series of 20 tapes recorded by George Kingsley Roth in Fiji in the 1950s, on Scotch Magnetic recording tapes, single track, 15min, 600 feet. The tapes record Fijian (and occasionally Tongan) songs and musical instruments and range from live recording, arranged recording and copies of recordings made by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. The tapes were brought to MAA for safekeeping in 2001 shortly after Mrs Jane Roth's death by Mrs Sue Stobbs, her neighbour. They were digitised by the World Oral Literature Project (WOLP) in 2012 and accessioned into MAA's collection in 2013.
14/01/2013
Created by: maa on 14/01/2013

Description (CMS Description)
Recording of musical instruments and songs: hand clapping, stamping tubes, gongs and songs, 15 min 21 seconds.
1) Hand clapping / hand clapping with bamboo stamping tubes / Wooden dance gong / Song sang with all these accompaniments. Rakiraki, Kadavu, October 1955. Arranged recording. [0.00 - 4.38]
2) Wooden dance gong (lalinimeke) being beaten along / Being beaten with accompaniment of hand clapping / 2 songs with an orchestra of gong and hand clapping. Rakiraki, Kadavu, October 1955. [4.40 - 11.00]
3) Notes of 5 stamping tubes, sounded first separately, then all together. Lutu, Naitasiri, January 1956. [11.00 - 12.54]
4) Notes of 7 stamping tubes, sounded first separately, then all together. Serua, September 1956. [12.57 - 15.21].
14/01/2013
Created by: maa on 14/01/2013