Seven Contemporary Papua New Guinean Songs

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases seven contemporary Papua New Guinean songs.

Information about Papua New Guinea (PNC) is also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

These singers were selected in relatively random manner. I intend to feature other PNG performers in subsequent pancocojams post. Click the Papua New Guinea tag for pancocojams posts that were previously published.

Some of these videos include examples of face and body painting. Click the "traditional and contemporary African face and body painting" tag to notice how similar the examples of facial and body painting in those videos are to some of the examples in this post.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in this post. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to CHM Supersound, the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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This pancocojams post expands this blog's focus by providing information about and examples of other cultures throughout the world besides those that are from Africa or the Black African Diaspora.

Note:
A number of Papua New Guinean videos on YouTube include scenes of females who are topless. I've chosen not to feature any of these videos so that this post could be accessible for supplemental curriculum in United States schools and cultural centers.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/01/excerpts-from-topix-forum-discussion.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "Excerpts From The Topix Forum Discussion "Are Papuans from New Guinea considered Blacks?"

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INFORMATION ABOUT PAPUA NEW GUINEA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG)..., officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. This followed nearly 60 years of Australian administration, which started during World War I. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right.

Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 percent of its people live in urban centres.[10] There are 852 known languages in the country, of which 12 now have no known living speakers.[11] Most of the population of more than 7 million people live in customary communities, which are as diverse as the languages.[12] The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically. It is known to have numerous groups of uncontacted peoples, and researchers believe there are many undiscovered species of plants and animals in the interior.[13]

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Demographics

Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world.[65] There are hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans, whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea region tens of thousands of years ago. The other indigenous peoples are Austronesians, their ancestors having arrived in the region less than four thousand years ago.

There are also numerous people from other parts of the world now resident, including Chinese,[66] Europeans, Australians, Indonesians, Filipinos, Polynesians, and Micronesians (the last four belonging to the Austronesian family). Around 40,000 expatriates, mostly from Australia and China, were living in Papua New Guinea in 1975.[67]

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Culture

It is estimated that more than a thousand cultural groups exist in Papua New Guinea. Because of this diversity, many styles of cultural expression have emerged. Each group has created its own expressive forms in art, dance, weaponry, costumes, singing, music, architecture and much more.

Most of these cultural groups have their own language."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS

If you have any information about these performers and these songs, please add it to those YouTube videos' discussion threads or this post's comment thread. Thanks!

Example #1: Steve Lahui - Emu Rubu



CHM Supersound, Published on Jun 29, 2017

Welcome to the CHMSupersound YouTube the place to find over 40 years history of PNG Music and all the greatest and latest music from Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific region. With an affiliation with smaller studios through PNG and even to other nations of the south pacific, CHM Supersound Studios has an extensive music library that covers all dominant genres from the area from the initial stringband and traditional contemporary style to the modern island reggae, R 'n' B, hip hop, etc. You want it -- this site's got it.
For more information just log on our new website http://www.chmsupersound.com

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Example #2: Noel Asi - Gini Mare



CHM Supersound, Published on Jul 12, 2017

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Example #3: Mirupa Doubts - Kulusi



CHM Supersound, Published on Nov 3, 2017


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Example #4: Taina Brothers - Jahrox



CHM Supersound, Published on Nov 9, 2017

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Example #5: Risco - Gaukara



CHM Supersound, Published on Nov 9, 2017

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Example #6: Saugas - Everlasting Memory



CHM Supersound, Published on Nov 9, 2017

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Example #7: Basil Greg - Lonely Makuri



CHM Supersound, Published on Nov 27, 2017

... Welcome to the CHMSupersound YouTube Channel the place to find over 40 years history of PNG Music and all the greatest and latest music from Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific region. PNG has over 800 tribes and 800 different languages, CHMSUPERSOUND Studio has been in the forefront pioneering music with the different tribes and their languages and creating hits songs that can break through the language barrier as well as enjoy by everyone in the world. With an affiliation with smaller studios through PNG and even to other nations of the south pacific, CHM Supersound Studios has an extensive music library that covers all dominant genres from the area from the initial stringband and traditional contemporary style to the modern island reggae, R 'n' B, hip hop,Gospel etc. You want it -- this site's got it -even PNG Comedy🤣😂and dancing!

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