Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band 9780824858209

During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
1 Introduction
2 A Musical Melanesian Way
3 A Decade in the Sun
4 The Sound of Sanguma
5 Re-formation in the World Music Era
6 From Heard Future to Sounding Present
7 Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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