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Themes: Music / Language

Memories and global songs

The Culture of the Countryside team worked with the singer Bridget Cousins and residents and staff of Beech House, Halesworth throughout Summer 2009. The knowledgeable and creative residents helped write four original songs which related to local culture, memories and global songs and were performed in November 2009 at The Cut, Halesworth.

Resource material:
  • Thatching related words
  • Music traditions in East Anglia
  • East Anglian dialect and local terms
  • East Anglian dance traditions
  • Language in Mexico and Central America
  • Instruments and sounds in Papua New Guinea
  • Communications in Papua New Guinea
World art objects:
  • Flute finial
  • Staff/club with one end carved in the form of a crocodile's head (40003)
  • Standing bird-headed figure stopper or finial. (40010)
  • Staff, with carved bands, topped with a fish (40066)
  • Bark painting with a border of chevrons top and bottom and a central stylised serpentine pattern (40078)
  • Painting on bark
  • Censer in the form of seated figure, possibly rain deity
  • Effigy censer of figure with avian headdress
  • Seated figure on four-legged stool
  • Seated figure with conical headdress
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