{"id":362,"date":"2020-03-30T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T11:24:25","slug":"fel-2020-grant-documenting-mumuh-traditional-singing-storytelling-in-lun-bawang-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/fel-2020-grant-documenting-mumuh-traditional-singing-storytelling-in-lun-bawang-sarawak\/","title":{"rendered":"FEL 2020 grant: Documenting mumuh, traditional singing storytelling in Lun Bawang, Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the third in the series of reports on projects funded by FEL in 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview. <\/strong>In many societies, storytelling has been the main method of transmitting knowledge inter-generationally. Mumuh <\/em>is a traditional method of storytelling in the form of recited songs among the Lun Bawang <\/a>people of Sarawak. Apart from the language itself being endangered, the performance of mumuh <\/em>is also a dying art. After searching for singers, I was told that there is one elderly lady called Ina Ladu who lives in Long Semadoh<\/a> settlement, Lawas division of Sarawak, East Malaysia, who is still able to sing mumuh<\/em>. This project will document performances of mumuh <\/em>with her. Note that mumuh<\/em> contains not only a lesser-known form of melody but also archaic lexical items. The project will also train one local participant to continue recording other traditional songs and stories in Lun Bawang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\" Grantee.<\/strong> This project is led by Jey Lingam Burkhardt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jey lectures in English and Communication Skills at the Centre for English Language Studies<\/a>, Sunway University, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics from Charles Darwin University, Australia, and has worked with language development projects in mother-tongue literacy, orthography development, and training of trainers among various minority language communities in Sarawak. Her research interests are Borneo studies, discourse analysis, language documentation and description, and self-regulated learning in higher education. She has recently co-authored a paper<\/a> entitled Then and now: changes in social organisation and livelihood of the Berawan community since the formation of Malaysia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the third in the series of reports on projects funded by FEL in 2020. Overview. In many societies, storytelling has been the main method of transmitting knowledge inter-generationally. Mumuh is a traditional method of storytelling in the form of recited songs among the Lun Bawang people of Sarawak. Apart from the language itself … Continue reading FEL 2020 grant: Documenting mumuh, traditional singing storytelling in Lun Bawang, Sarawak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fel_grant2020-fel_grants","category-fel_grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}