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South Pacific "pop" music
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South Pacific "pop" music recorded on the beach with full band, including guitar, tea chest bass and spoons.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of music and soundscapes made by ethnomusicologist Raymond Clausen mainly on the island of Malekula (Malampa Province) in Vanuatu between 1960 and 1979.
Recorded by Raymond Ernst Clausen.
Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
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Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds