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The ongoing stream of history, Ranginui Walker
The People of Many Peaks, 1769-1869 Claudia Orange (ed), Bridget Williams Books and Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1991, $35.00 This book contains the biographies of 161 notable Maori leaders between 1769 and 1869 who appear in the first volume…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Claudia Orange, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 2, Ranginui Walker, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Autobiography as drama: Thompson Agonistes, Roger Robinson
Mervyn Thompson in his one-man show, Passing Through Theatre does not get more personal than this. The author/ performer is known to have serious cancer. The play is in considerable part about his mortality. A conventional review with a discreet…
Tagged with: Issue 2, Mervyn Thompson, Roger Robinson, Winter 1991
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Literature, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
Pinning down New Zealand architecture, Christoper Vine
Looking at the Architecture of New Zealand Terence Hodgson Grantham House, Wellington, 1990, $39.95 Though architecture is the most public of the arts and lays claim to being the mistress of them all to boot, it is ill served by…
Tagged with: Christopher Vine, Grantham House, Issue 2, Terence Hodgson, Winter 1991
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
New lyricism and an old favourite, Stephanie Edmond
Chen Li and the River Spirit Anthony Holcroft Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Slinky Malinki Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1990, $17.95 Caterwaul Caper Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1990, $8.75 Chen Li and the River Spirit is a…
Tagged with: Anthony Holcroft, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 2, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Stephanie Edmond, Winter 1991
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
From melodrama to professionalism, Sunny Amey
The Land of the Moa George Leitch, edited by Adrian Kiernander, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990, $19.95 Tomasi: For Islands Far Away Harrison Bray Playmarket, Wellington, 1990, $16.95 Power Play Rachel McAlpine, Playmarket, Wellington, 1990, $12.95 Billy Vincent O’Sullivan, Victoria…
Tagged with: Adrian Kiernander, George Leitch, Harrison Bray Playmarket, Issue 2, Playmarket, Rachel McAlpine, Sunny Amey, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1991
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
New freedoms and old heritages, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Finding Connections P J Kavanagh, Hutchinson (distrib Random Century, Auckland), 1990, $42.95 Over half a century ago Karl Mannheim wrote in Ideology and Utopia of the western intelligentsia as a uniquely privileged caste. Intellectuals, he said, were fortunate enough to…
Tagged with: Hutchinson, Issue 2, P J Kavanagh, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The Oceanic heritage, Wendy Pond
Songs and Stories of Tokelau. An introduction to the cultural heritage Allan Thomas, Ineleo Tuia and Judith Huntsman (eds), Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990, $14.95 (Cassette available from the School of Music. Box 600, Wellington, $8.00) Waiata Maori Songs in…
In praise of difficult women, Annabel Cooper
Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography Lynley Hood John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $29.95 Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner Lynley Hood Viking, Auckland 1988, $39.95, Paper $24.95 Who is Sylvia? is a day-by-day account of Lynley Hood’s work,…
Tagged with: Annabel Cooper, Issue 2, John McIndoe, Lynley Hood, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
High standards and fine judgement, Marian Minson
Opera in New Zealand: Aspects of History and Performance, Adrienne Simpson (ed), Witham Press (PO Box 28-074), Wellington, 1990, $24.95 Since her recent return to New Zealand, Wellington musical historian Adrienne Simpson has made a strong impact with regular talks…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, Issue 2, Marian Minson, Winter 1991, Witham Press
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Our cultural debt to ancient Iraq, Lloyd Geering
Posted in Comment