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“mervyn mclean”

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  • Maori Music

    by Mervyn McLean ...
    This book is the best introduction available to Maori music – the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Tatau Waka

    In Search of Maori Music

    by Mervyn McLean ...
    This account of an ethnomusicologist's experience conducting fieldwork offers a glimpse into the life of New Zealand's Maori people through his documentation of traditional songs. The audio recordings included span 1958 through 1979, a time when many of the culture's traditions were fading. Sensitive writing and attention to the challenges of anthropological fieldwork shed light on postcolonialism ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Traditional Songs of the Maori

    by Mervyn McLean, Margaret Orbell ...
    This classic study of indigenous Polynesian music, conducted in the 1960s, includes a survey of traditional songs in different styles that embody the fundamental values of Maori culture in New Zealand. Musical transcriptions, Maori texts, English translations, and extensive notes on more than 50 traditional Maori songs are included. Common ceremonial songs are represented, including elaborate ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs of Kaumatua

    Traditional Songs of the Maori as Sung by Kino Hughes

    by Dr. Mervyn McLean, Dr. Margaret Orbell ...
    Sixty traditional Maori songs of Tuhoe sung by Kino Hughes are presented in this book and CD collection. The text of each song is given in both English and Maori along with a musical transcription. Kino Hughes was an outstanding singer, orator, and respected Kaumatua who, determined to preserve for future generations all the songs he knew, asked these authors to compile this magnificent record. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

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  • The Colony

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