An ethnomusicological investigation of the role of music in the Nekowiaar ceremony Tanna, Vanuatu 1995

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dc.contributor.authorRoberts-Johnson, Treacy McPhearsonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T17:40:05Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T17:40:05Z
dc.date.copyright1997en_US
dc.date.issued1997
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Arts in Education
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education M.Ed.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an ethnomusicological study that describes and analyses the role of music in the Nekowiaar ceremony on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. The Nekowiaar is held on a five to six year cycle and serves to transmit local cultural knowledge. To investigate the phenomenon, I undertook fieldwork on Tanna from July 1995 to January 1996 and gave particular attention to the role of music in the Nekowiaar performance. The Nekowiaar is regarded as the most important of all ceremonies by the Tannese. Research strategies were guided by a phenomenological perspective and included participant observation, formal and informal interviews, photography and audio recordings, and consultation with four Tannese co-researchers (Giorgi, 1975; Polkinghome, 1983). These techniques provided a corpus of text and interview material on the ceremony. To the Tannese people the Nekowiaar ceremony is essential to retention of tradition. It is through the medium of music and its performance in ceremony that social, economic, political, and religious knowledge is shared and passed on. The research supported the conclusion that the Tannese continue to employ music as a means of accurately recording and transmitting local cultural knowledge to future generations.
dc.format.extent254 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/19475
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleAn ethnomusicological investigation of the role of music in the Nekowiaar ceremony Tanna, Vanuatu 1995en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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