Resource
Maori Music
Book hardcover
About
In Maori Music, Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field work that yielded some 1300 recorded songs, hundreds of pages of interviews with singers, and numerous eye-witness accounts. This book, illustrated throughout with photos and music examples, is highly readable and will serve as a basic and indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in Maori music.
Collation
xii, 418 p. : ill., map, music, ports. ; 26 cm.
Copyright
Mervyn McLean 1996
Publisher note
Auckland University Press
Author note
Dedication note
To Arapeta Awatere (1910-1976) and Hoani Halbert (1890-1958)