Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning

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Tony Lewis

Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea

Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning

Tony Lewis

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Routledge
14 August 2020

The Arts: General & Reference; Music: styles & genres; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles

Series: SOAS Studies in Music

The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut playing is comparatively highly developed. This book follows the author’s processes and methods in learning to play the music of the garamut, to the level at which he became accepted as a garamut player by the people of Baluan.

Lewis argues that analysis is essential in learning to play the rapid tempi and complex rhythms of Baluan garamut music, in a cultural context where there is no formal teaching process for the music. The transcription and analysis of the Baluan garamut repertoire is the centrepiece of this study, reflecting the cognitive structures of the learning process, and revealing the inner workings of the music’s complexity as well as a striking beauty of form and structure.

The book concludes with reflections on the process of a ‘cultural outsider’ becoming a garamut player in Baluan and on the role of musical analysis in that process, on the ethnomusicologist’s role in transmission of the music, and on the nature of continuity and change in a musical society such as Baluan.

By: Tony Lewis
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367591236
ISBN 10: 0367591235
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 14 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures; List of tables; List of maps; List of audio material; Chapter One: Baluan Chooses a Researcher; Chapter Two: The Garamut in Baluan; Chapter Three: The Baluan Garamut in Performance; Chapter Four: Musical Analysis of Baluan Garamut; Chapter Five: The Baluan Garamut in Diaspora; Chapter Six: Becoming a Garamut Player; Glossary; Bibliography; Catalogue of Appendices; Index

Tony Lewis is a musician, composer and academic based in Sydney, Australia. As a musician, he has studied and worked in numerous and diverse non-Western cultures. He has a PhD in ethnomusicology from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and he writes and delivers lecture content for a number of institutions in Australia.