| Description |
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue/introduction -- Maori, New Zealand and empire on stage -- Alfred Hill and Princess Iwa: Maori music and musical hybridity -- Performing landscape, people and stories: Rotorua and the Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett -- A harmony of frenzy: Maori in Manhattan 1909-1910 -- "Maori-land" on film -- Encore/conclusion |
| Summary |
"Examining corporeal expressions of indigenousness from an historical perspective, this book highlights the development of cultural hybridity in New Zealand via the popular performing arts, contributing new understandings of racial, ethnic, and gender identities through performance. The author offers an insightful and welcome examination of New Zealand performing arts via case studies of drama, music, and dance, performed both domestically and internationally. As these examples show, notions of modern New Zealand were shaped and understood in the creation and reception of popular culture. Highlighting embodied indigenous cultures of the past provides a new interpretation of the development of New Zealand's cultural history and adds an unexplored dimension in understanding the relationships between Māori and Pākehā throughout the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries."--Amazon website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index |
| Subject |
Maori (New Zealand people) in the performing arts -- New Zealand -- History
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2015032083 |
| ISBN |
9781137595997 |
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113759599X |
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