During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named "Sanguma". Australian ethnomusicologist Denis Crowdy argues that the Sanguma band's music was a vital form of cultural expression in sync with sociopolitical change then taking place in PNG.
During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pi...
