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Gamelans and paldongs, Sue Court
World Music is Where We Found it: Essays by and for Allan Thomas Wendy Pond and Paul Wolffram (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736949 World Music is Where We Found it is not a collection of essays in…
Tagged with: Allan Thomas, Issue 99, Paul Wolffram, Spring 2012, Sue Court, Victoria University Press, Wendy Pond
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Songs not lost, Nepia Mahuika
Nga Moteatea: An Introduction/He Kupu Arataki Jane McRae and Heni Jacob (trans) Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404901 Jane McRae’s Nga Moteatea: An Introduction is a small book that seems longer because the comprehensive Maori translation by Heni Jacob…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Heni Jacob, Issue 98, Jane McRae, Nepia Mahuika, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Draft 17 anyone? David Eggleton
Dunedin Soundings: Place and Performance Dan Bendrups and Graeme Downes (eds) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978 877578229 With the possible exception of Chris Knox, the “Dunedin Sound” was never driven by charismatic personalities. Instead, it consisted of a…
Tagged with: Dan Bendrups, David Eggleton, Graeme Downes, Issue 98, Otago University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Worth playing, Samantha Owens
A Search for Tradition and a Search for Language Douglas Lilburn Lilburn Residence Trust, $24.99, ISBN 9780473183790 When Douglas Lilburn died at his Thorndon home in June 2001 at the age of 85, numerous obituaries, published both here and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Douglas Lilburn, Issue 97, Lilburn Residence Trust, Samantha Owens
Posted in Lecture, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Lecture, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Smoke gets in our eyes, Colin Morris
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 Chris Bourke Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404550 To anybody under the age of 25, it might come as a shock to read Chris Bourke’s book and discover…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Bourke, Colin Morris, Issue 95, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Invaluable taonga, Paul Wolffram
Nga Moteatea: The Songs, Part 4: Collected by Apirana Ngata, translated by Hirini Moko Mead Jenifer Curnow and Jane McRae (eds) Auckland University Press, $22.50, ISBN 9781869403867 This is the final instalment in the series of Nga Moteatea: The Songs,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Hirini Moko Mead, Issue 81, Jane McRae, Jenifer Curnow, Paul Wolffram
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Dead ends and hairpin bends, Nick Bollinger
Highway of Legends: On the Road with the Kings and Queens of Country Music Dianne Haworth HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 1869505891 The road is a place, both real and metaphorical, central to the life of any professional musician. It is where…
Tagged with: Dianne Haworth, HarperCollins, Issue 79, Nick Bollinger, Spring 2007
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Keeping the songs alive, Allan Thomas
Nga Moteatea: The Songs, Part One ed A T Ngata and Pei Te Hurinui Jones Auckland University Press (third edition with CDs), $70.00, ISBN 1869403215 Traditional Songs of the Maori ed Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell Auckland University Press (third…
Tagged with: A T Ngata, Allan Thomas, Auckland University Press, Issue 68, June 2005, Margaret Orbell, Mervyn McLean, Pei Te Hurinui Jones
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Standing up for it, Redmer Yska
God Defend New Zealand: A History of the National Anthem Ashley Heenan School of Music and University of Canterbury, $29.95, ISBN 0908718098 Hear Our Voices We Entreat: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s National Anthems Max Cryer Exisle Publishing, $29.99,…
Tagged with: Ashley Heenan, Exisle Publishing, Issue 68, June 2005, Max Cryer, Redmer Yska, School of Music and University of Canterbury
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Down by the river, Charlotte Yates
How to Listen to Pop Music Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250960 Nick Bollinger is well known as a music reviewer or, perhaps the weightier epithet, rock journalist. He has worked in print media since 1988 for, among others,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Awa Press, Charlotte Yates, Issue 69, Nick Bollinger
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction, Review