Tō tātau waka : in search of Māori music (1958-1979) / Mervyn McLean.

Author/creator McLean, Mervyn
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoAuckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2004.
Description192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subjects

Contents Getting started -- Rotorua (May-July 1958) -- Between times (1958-1962) -- Getting on, and getting about -- First 1962-64 field trip (August-October 1962) -- Second 1962-64 field trip (February-April 1963) -- Third 1962-64 field trip (August-December) -- Final 1962-64 field trip (February-May 1964) -- PhD thesis -- Overseas again (1965-68) -- The later years (1969-79) -- An appeal to Maori readers.
Abstract This book tells the story of the author's fieldwork recording waiata and other traditional Maori songs over a span of more than twenty years from 1958 to 1979. McLean's recordings, now stored in the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music at the University of Auckland, have been of great importance in revitalizing Maori music in many tribal areas and have preserved the songs and the voices of great many kaumātua. McLean travelled throughout New Zealand often in primitive conditions showing extraordinary dedication and painstaking care in this important work and meeting and working with most of the Maori leaders of the period. The book includes over 80 photographs, two maps, a glossary of song types and an index of names, along with an audio CD containing 37 waiata from his collection, led or performed by kaumātua whose photographs appear in the book.
General noteAccompanying CD contains 37 waiata.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 174-176) and indexes.
Biographical noteMervyn McLean is the author of more than 130 publications, including four previous books with Auckland University Press: Maori Music (1996), Weavers of Songs: Polynesian Music and Dance (1999), and two Maori song anthologies with Margaret Orbell, Traditional Songs of the Maori (1990) and Songs of a Kaumātua (2002). He was Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland, where he was New Zealand's first, and for a long time only ethnomusicologist, pioneering the teaching of the subject in New Zealand, and winning international recognition as an authority on Maori and Pacific music. He was the founder of the Archive of Maori and Pacific music, which is now the largest such collection in the world.
LanguageIn English.
LCCN 2004380367
ISBN1869403061 (pbk.)

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