Highways and Byways of contemporary music in Aotearoa (Te Marama Pūoro o Aotearoa / New Zealand Music Month)Like this list

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• Te Ara Puoro

  a Journey Into the World of Māori Music

  Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021

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  Richard Nunns, along with Brian Flintoff and Hirini Melbourne, helped revive the musical traditions of taonga pūoro, traditional Māori instruments. Along the way he collaborated with musicians from all over the world and all across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Search for Tradition

  &, A Search for a Language

  Lilburn, Douglas, 1915-2001

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  One of our most respected composers, Lilburn was the first composer from Aotearoa to search for a music that truly came from the whenua. These two essays lay out Lilburn's arguments for that position.

• Moon, Tides and Shoreline

  Gillian Karawe Whitehead : a Life in Music

  Sanders, Noel, 1948-

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  The story of how Whitehead, one of our most interesting contemporary composers, found ways to unite European and Māori traditions in her music.

• Sound Stories

  Dadson, Philip, 1946-

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  Available to read at our collection at the Christchurch Art Gallery, this is a beautiful anthology of sound explorations in prose form from Phil Dadson, an inveterate Kiwi sonic explorer.

• Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi

  a Remarkable Life

  Ka'ai, Tania

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  Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi was a highly respected leader from Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare at Tokomaru Bay who was passionate about the revitalisation and flourishing of the Māori world. She is widely remembered for her beautiful waiata, which are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Erewhon Calling

  Experimental Sound in New Zealand

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  A source book for experimental music in Aotearoa - covering a wide array of approaches and opinions on the music. Edited by noise elegend, and Ōtautahi local, Bruce Russell.

• Strange Terrain

  a New Anthology of New Zealand Graphic Scores, 1965-2012

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  Graphic scores, music written in pictures or diagrams, have a rich tradition in Aotearoa - this book explores a range of contemporary examples.

• Jazz Aotearoa

  Notes Towards a New Zealand History

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  Editor and ethnomusicologist Alan Thomas asks in this book: what does jazz from Aotearoa sound like? The answer is, lots of things . . .

• The Necessity for Consolation

  John Cousins Speaks

  Cousins, John, 1943-

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  Ōtautahi's own John Cousins is an uncompromising avant garde composer and performance artist - read about it in his own words.

• World Music Is Where We Found It

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  Dedicated to the life and work of ethnomusicologist and teacher, Alan Thomas, this is a wide ranging collection exploring many directions ethnomusicologists in Aotearoa have gone in recent years.

• Talking Music

  Conversations With New Zealand Musicians

  Shieff, Sarah

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  A fantastic introduction to the thinking of many of our finest musicians and composers.

• Mutterings From a Spiry Crag

  McLeod, Jenny (Jennifer Helen), 1941-2022

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  Poetry from one of our most esteemed contemporary composers.

• New Zealand Jazz Life

  Meehan, Norman, 1965-

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  Meehan is a prolific jazz musician and jazz writer - here he paints a picture of the jazz scene in Aotearoa via extensive interviews.

• Searches for Tradition

  Essays on New Zealand Music, Past & Present

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  Another on this list that asks what exactly music is in this country - this one takes a wide look at many musics on our archipelago.

• The Subconscious Restaurant

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  An offshoot of art magazine White Fungus, The Subconscious Restaurant explores many things, including the dazzling array of experimental music in Aotearoa.

• Home, Land and Sea

  Situating Music in Aotearoa New Zealand

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  Approaching the same territory as the books above, but looking more at popular musics and asking again: what do they sound like here?