Toksave: Culture Talks
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ngali nuts: work songs and delicacies in Malaita, Solomon Islands
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of two episodes featuring the music and culture of North Malaita, Solomon Islands from the IF01 collection of Ian Frazer in his fi...
PNG: Central Province Music and Dance
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from Episode 13, we continue our exploration of music of the Central Province, Papua New Guinea featuring the PNG Peroveta Singers of Can...
PNG: Peroveta (Prophet Songs)
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of two episodes featuring the PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra, a group of diaspora community members who share and perform the musi...
Buried in the Sand: Digging deep into Gudjal language and culture
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12: Buried in the Sand: Digging deep into Gudjal language and culture William Santo is a Gudjal elder, author and musician. Opening with Willi...
True Echoes: Responding to Hula Songs from the Past
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from episode 10, we continue discussions about early recordings made by Charles Gabriel Seligmann during the Daniels Ethnographical Exped...
True Echoes: Hula language and song
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpts from and a discussion of 1904 wax cylinder recordings from the Hula village in the Rigo District of Papua New Guinea, with Hula speakers Roge...
Paama, Vanuatu, Sharks and shark spirits
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Obed and Kirk Huffman join Jodie and Steven discussing the cultural significance of sharks in Vanuatu and across Melanesia from the SD1 collect...
Sinaugoro, makes me think about my language
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen Bobone and Mae Carroll join Jodie and Steven to talk about the 2020 Field Methods Lingusitics course conducted at the Australian National Unive...
Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu, NT, Australia: Old ways for New Ceremonies
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu women Payi Linda Ford and Emily Tyaemaen Ford discuss the private archival collection LPF and the research journey through arc...
Fiji Hindi, Re-connecting with my Girmitiya Heritage
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prash Krishnan joins Jodie and Steven to talk about the JS2 Collection deposited by researcher and Professor Jeff Siegel of the University of New Engl...
Rabaul, PNG: The Music
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from the previous episode, this podcast is a kind of blindfold test as we listen to a range of musical examples Steven has chosen from th...
Rabaul, PNG: The Researcher and the Tolai
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Sydney Conservatorium Associate Professor Michael Webb met Steven Gagau, they quickly realised they had Tolai connections and Tok Pisin language ...
Paama, Vanuatu: This is gold to me
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Johnny Obed is a Paamese man living in Sydney. He is an associate of Steven Gagau through the Wantok Association of Sydney, a representative body ...
Papunya, Australia: Just like a storybook
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are transported to the Western Desert of Central Australia as Pintupi-Luritja woman Linda Tjungkata Anderson listens to her father Nosepeg Tjupurru...
Trobriand Islands, PNG: Our Culture is Just a Heartbeat
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Hull joins Jodie and Steven to talk about the RL1 collection recorded by Ralph Lawton in the Trobriand Islands, off the east coast of Papua New ...