Book & Print in New Zealand
Book & Print in New Zealand

Author: Douglas Ross Harvey

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780864733313

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A guide to print culture in Aotearoa, the impact of the book and other forms of print on New Zealand. This collection of essays by many contributors looks at the effect of print on Maori and their oral traditions, printing, publishing, bookselling, libraries, buying and collecting, readers and reading, awards, and the print culture of many other language groups in New Zealand.

Country of Writing
Country of Writing

Author: Dr. Lydia Wevers

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1775580539

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This pioneering examination of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period discusses a wide range of writing that helped place New Zealand on the literary map, while providing an oblique history of the young nation in the 19th century. Exploring early newspaper accounts; the journals of missionaries, traders, and adventurers; and the guidebooks and specialized descriptions of fishing, and hunting, which promoted New Zealand as a sporting paradise, Wevers finds that writing about New Zealand was an essential tool in the colonization process.

A Book in the Hand
A Book in the Hand

Author: Penelope Griffith

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781869402310

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As we find ourselves in a technological revolution and the computer screen takes over the printed page, the history of the book has become a subject of study throughout the world. This collection of 15 essays looks at at a wide variety of topics from the history of the printed word in New Zealand.

Maori Music
Maori Music

Author: Mervyn McLean

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781869401443

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Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. 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. The work is illustrated throughout with photos and music examples.