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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
Frame by frame, Paul Wolffram
New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History Diane Pivac (ed) with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald Te Papa Press, $85.00, ISBN 9781877385667 It is rare to find a non-fiction book that offers such a fascinating and comprehensive view of its…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Diane Pivac, Frank Stark, Issue 97, Lawrence McDonald, Paul Wolffram, Te Papa Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, 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
Kino Hughes’s legacy, Paul Wolffram
Songs of a Kaumatua: Sung by Kino Hughes Mervyn McLean & Margaret Orbell Auckland University Press, $89.95, ISBN 1869402588 Songs of a Kaumatua was initiated by Kino Hughes, the remarkable personality at the centre of this book. Hughes was born…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Margaret Orbell, Mervyn McLean, Paul Wolffram, Winter 2003
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Paul Wolffram
A Gift to Shostakovich Shostakovich was a practical man. With the world at war, the rouble was hard to come by. He decided it was time to reassess the role of the artist. He joined the Leningrad Fire Department there…
Poem – Paul Wolffram
Reader In writing, I can’t help but remember with intimate indifference the vein that runs parallel to your neck. Entering bone just below and in front of your earlobe, where it’s riven with vein purpose beneath your lower row…
Poem – Paul Wolffram
finding romance Just out of Hope waiting for a ride feeding the one horse in this town splitting flax until your fingers are sticky with sap and sick of dividing the hours a truck stops so you mount the tray…