New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions have been altered or even abandoned. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time.
This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. Songs, like the stick of bamboo, assist the Duna in picking their way over this terrain by providing a forum for them to process change as it is experienced, in relation to what is already known. Similarly, the Duna live in a social and cultural environment of steep slopes, where the path on which they walk can be precarious and unpredictable. A stick of bamboo used as a prop goes a long way in assisting a struggling traveller. The Duna live in a physical environment of steep slopes that are sometimes difficult to traverse.
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