TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnston,Emma
TI  - Healing Maori through song and dance: three case studies of recent New Zealand music theatre 
SN  - 3639034090
U1  - 782.140899442 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Saarbrücken, Germany
PB  - VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
KW  - Healing
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Musical theater
KW  - Maori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Songs and music
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Hauora
KW  - reo
KW  - Mahi ā-Rēhia
KW  - Mōteatea
KW  - Waiata
N1  - Publication of the author's MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 2007; Includes bibliographical references; Also available online
N2  - "This book investigates the way "healing" may be seen to be represented and enacted by three recent New Zealand music theatre productions: Once Were Warriors, the Musical-Drama; The Whale Rider, On Stage; and Footprints/Tapuwae, a bicultural opera. It addresses the ways each of these music theatre productions can be seen to dramatise ideologically informed notions of Maori cultural health through the encounter of Maori performance practices with American and European music theatre forms. Because the original colonial encounter between Maori and Pakeha was a wounding process, it may be possible that in order to construct a theatrical meeting between the "colonised" Maori and the "colonial" non-Maori, "healing" is an essential element by which to foster an idea of the post-colonial, bicultural togetherness of the nation. In all three productions, Maori song and dance forms are incorporated into a distinctive form of western music theatre: the American musical; the international spectacle; Wagnerian opera. Wagner's attempts to regenerate German culture through his music dramas can be compared to Maori renaissance idea(l)s of cultural "healing" through a "return" to Maori myths, traditions and song and dance."
ER  -