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Bwaidogan kadede: a dance song

An episode of the Cities and Memory - remixing the world podcast, hosted by Cities and Memory, titled "Bwaidogan kadede: a dance song" was published on February 22, 2026 and runs 1 minutes.

February 22, 2026 ·1m · Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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"Bwaidogan kadede": a dance song performed by Biliko, Kwaiago and Wakalubu, a trio from the Bwaidoka district of Goodenough Island.

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of songs and spoken language (principally Bwaidoka) made by anthropologist Diamond Jenness and Methodist missionary Reverend Andrew Ballantyne on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Islands) in Papua New Guinea in 1912.

Recorded by Diamond Jenness and Rev. Andrew Ballantyne.

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

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