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Echoes from Hawaiki : the origins and development of Māori and Moriori musical instruments / Jennifer Cattermole.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©[2024]Description: 246 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781990048593
  • 1990048595
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.190899944 23
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Weaving new strands in the whāriki of knowledge -- Taonga pūoro names and whakapapa -- The iwitanga and rohe differences of taonga pūoro -- Discovering new voices -- Echoes of the ancestors -- Appendix 1: Names of instruments -- Appendix 2: Names of plants, animals and other materials -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Ngā mihimihi -- Audio links -- Index.
Summary: "Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical traditions and instrument-playing techniques.In this thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated book, Jennifer Cattermole traces the origins and development of taonga pūoro, the stories they carry and how they connect present-day iwi with ancestral knowledge and traditions. She shows how traditional Māori and Moriori musical instruments have developed in response to available materials and evolving cultural needs, from their ancestral origins through the suppression of their use in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Aotearoa New Zealand, to their revival in the present day"--Publisher information.
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Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 784.190899944 CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A562346B

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Weaving new strands in the whāriki of knowledge -- Taonga pūoro names and whakapapa -- The iwitanga and rohe differences of taonga pūoro -- Discovering new voices -- Echoes of the ancestors -- Appendix 1: Names of instruments -- Appendix 2: Names of plants, animals and other materials -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Ngā mihimihi -- Audio links -- Index.

"Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical traditions and instrument-playing techniques.In this thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated book, Jennifer Cattermole traces the origins and development of taonga pūoro, the stories they carry and how they connect present-day iwi with ancestral knowledge and traditions. She shows how traditional Māori and Moriori musical instruments have developed in response to available materials and evolving cultural needs, from their ancestral origins through the suppression of their use in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Aotearoa New Zealand, to their revival in the present day"--Publisher information.

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