{"id":59473,"date":"2023-10-28T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/27\/heavy-metal-bougainville-music-and-mines-png-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2023-10-28T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T18:00:52","slug":"from-heavy-metals-to-heavy-metal-bougainvilles-unlikely-musical-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59473","title":{"rendered":"From heavy metals to heavy metal: Bougainville\u2019s unlikely musical obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popularity of genre traces back to Australian fans who worked in mines in the Papua New Guinea region decades earlier<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourtesy of the patriarchs\u2019 path shown by ancient ancestral domain \u2026 retain or never,\u201d bellows singer Hyginus Tagira to an appreciative crowd of metalheads at a festival in Kokopau, a bustling township in Bougainville.<\/p>\n<p>Tagira is the flamboyant frontman of Conscience \u2013 pronounced Con Science \u2013 a four-piece metal band. He\u2019s dressed the part, swaddled in a leather cape that must have raised his body temperature to dizzying levels in the fearsome afternoon heat. It\u2019s still early in the festival but hundreds of Bougainvilleans were there, most wearing lurid heavy metal T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/27\/heavy-metal-bougainville-music-and-mines-png-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popularity of genre traces back to Australian fans who worked in mines in the Papua New Guinea region decades earlier\u201cCourtesy of the patriarchs\u2019 path shown by ancient ancestral domain \u2026 retain or never,\u201d bellows singer Hyginus Tagira to an appreciativ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,945,1048,425,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-metal","category-music","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59473\/revisions\/59474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}