MW6-077 - Interview with Dokta Taule, Malay Town, Rabaul

Tape#1 : The Creation of Rabaul Indigenous Brass Band in late 1930s' Side A & B: Dokta Taule was born on 6th September 1928 and attended the Waterhouse Memorial School from 1937to 1939 where he tells the background and his knowledge of the creation of the Rabaul Indigenous Brass Band. The Brass Band was taught by David Crowley who had opposition and discouragements by the Australian colonial administrators who did not have confidence in the learning and skills ability of the indigenous people with discouraging response to the idea. Crowley took on the challenge to prove to them that the Brass Band with its members learning to play musical instruments as a skill is achievable. He proceeded to get the band together and began practicing the instruments for establishing the band which can develop towards entertainment and performances into the future. The members of the Band were selected students of Malaguna Technical, Malaguna Elementary, Nodup Waterhouse Memorial School. Dokta witnessed their practice sessions to eventual first ever Band performance marching through the streets of Rabaul Town after Crowley was satisfied of the competence of the Band. The display and entertainment provided on the streets became popular and event to expatriates all came out to the street to watch the Band march. As for the local and indigenous people, it was a great achievement of new music performance on learnt instruments as Dokta puts it, it felt like a "miracle" in action and unfolding. Other music history was with the first female choir conductor in Lila IaMatalau in Matupit. She had the skills of sowing uniforms for the choirs and other general patterns for laplaps, blouses for women and shirts for men. Dokta was also a choir conductor and was taught music by Ray Sheriden at Malaguna Technical School. He also worked for the Japanese during the war in their occupation of Rabaul and Gazelle Peninsula mainly digging tunnels at various locations and harvesting from the forests mainly in North Baining areas for timber. Other musical history of various Tolai people in brass bands and choral music were described by Dokta. (Steven Gagau, April 2019). Language as given:

磁带1号：1930年代末拉包尔本土铜管乐队（Rabaul Indigenous Brass Band）的创立 A面与B面：多克塔·陶莱（Dokta Taule）于1928年9月6日出生，1937年至1939年就读于沃特豪斯纪念学校（Waterhouse Memorial School），他在此讲述了该乐队创立的背景与自身相关见闻。该铜管乐队由大卫·克劳利（David Crowley）牵头教学，但遭到澳大利亚殖民当局的反对与阻挠——当局对原住民的学习能力与技艺水平缺乏信心，对组建乐队的提议持否定态度。克劳利迎难而上，旨在向当局证明：让乐队成员以技艺学习的方式掌握乐器演奏完全可行。他随即着手组建乐队，组织成员开展乐器练习，以期将这支乐队打造为未来可用于演出与文娱活动的团体。乐队成员均选自马拉古纳技术学校（Malaguna Technical）、马拉古纳小学（Malaguna Elementary）以及诺杜普沃特豪斯纪念学校（Nodup Waterhouse Memorial School）的在校学生。在克劳利确认乐队的演奏水准达标后，陶莱见证了乐队首次在拉包尔镇街道上行进演出的全过程。此次街头展演大获好评，甚至吸引外籍侨民纷纷走上街头观看乐队游行。而对于当地原住民而言，这是他们通过自学乐器掌握音乐表演的里程碑式成就——正如陶莱所言，这场演出宛如一场正在上演的"奇迹"。此外，录音还记录了马图皮特（Matupit）地区首位女性合唱团指挥莉拉·伊阿马塔洛（Lila IaMatalau）的音乐史事：她具备为合唱团缝制演出制服的技艺，还擅长制作各类服饰版型，包括女性上衣、男性衬衫以及拉普拉斯围布（laplaps）。陶莱本人也曾担任合唱团指挥，他在马拉古纳技术学校师从雷·谢里登（Ray Sheriden）学习音乐。二战期间，日军占领拉包尔与加泽尔半岛（Gazelle Peninsula），陶莱曾为日军效力，主要负责在多处地点挖掘隧道，并在北拜宁地区（North Baining areas）的森林中采伐木材。陶莱还讲述了其他多位托莱（Tolai）族人参与铜管乐队与合唱音乐的相关音乐史事。（史蒂文·加戈（Steven Gagau），2019年4月）。本次记录语言说明如下：