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Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea

This is a funerary song -- the wept singing or sung weeping is performed by Hane. The structure of the song is meant to imitate bird songs -- which are the voices of the dead.  

Want more on wept song? Check out Steven Feld's Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression