Jack! : celebrating Jack Body, composer /
Jack! : celebrating Jack Body, composer /
edited by Jennifer Shennan, Gillian Whitehead & Scilla Askew.
- 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), music ; 27 cm
Includes discographies and index.
Introduction -- Indonesia : discovering a new sensuality -- China : new light on old sounds -- Mentor and teacher : a search for ideas -- In performance : embracing the world -- Beginnings : family and music -- Gamelan : first light in Aotearoa -- Projects and festivals : irresistible entrepeneur -- Artforms : working at the edge -- Cambodia : never to forget -- Good friends : all through the night.
Internationally renowned composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body is 70 -- celebrate his birthday and unswerving commitment to New Zealand music with this beautiful volume. Featuring more than 120 contributions, Jack! is an astounding collection of memories, photos, paintings, art and music from friends and colleagues such as Vincent Ward, Slamet A Sjukur, Geoff Chapple, Martin Lodge, Tan Dun, Charles Te Ahukaramu Royal, Gao Ping, Ian Wedde, Gareth Farr, Budi Putra, Jose Evangelista and Richard Nunns. Woven between the stories is a transcript of Jack's comprehensive Radio NZ 'Composer of the Week' interview with Elizabeth Kerr. A must for lovers of contemporary New Zealand music.
9781927242735 1927242738
Body, Jack, 1944-2015 --Biography.
Body, Jack, 1944-2015 --Anecdotes.
Composers--New Zealand--Biography
Music--New Zealand--20th century.
Music--New Zealand--21st century.
780.92
Includes discographies and index.
Introduction -- Indonesia : discovering a new sensuality -- China : new light on old sounds -- Mentor and teacher : a search for ideas -- In performance : embracing the world -- Beginnings : family and music -- Gamelan : first light in Aotearoa -- Projects and festivals : irresistible entrepeneur -- Artforms : working at the edge -- Cambodia : never to forget -- Good friends : all through the night.
Internationally renowned composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body is 70 -- celebrate his birthday and unswerving commitment to New Zealand music with this beautiful volume. Featuring more than 120 contributions, Jack! is an astounding collection of memories, photos, paintings, art and music from friends and colleagues such as Vincent Ward, Slamet A Sjukur, Geoff Chapple, Martin Lodge, Tan Dun, Charles Te Ahukaramu Royal, Gao Ping, Ian Wedde, Gareth Farr, Budi Putra, Jose Evangelista and Richard Nunns. Woven between the stories is a transcript of Jack's comprehensive Radio NZ 'Composer of the Week' interview with Elizabeth Kerr. A must for lovers of contemporary New Zealand music.
9781927242735 1927242738
Body, Jack, 1944-2015 --Biography.
Body, Jack, 1944-2015 --Anecdotes.
Composers--New Zealand--Biography
Music--New Zealand--20th century.
Music--New Zealand--21st century.
780.92