Author: Roger Horrocks
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: lye, len
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1869402472
ISBN-13: 9781869402471

The life of an extraordinary New Zealander told for the first time. A charismatic personality Lye was a major New Zealand artist and a leading figure in international modernism who lived in London and New York but always retained a South Pacific energy and informality. There is a growing interest in his work and it is well illustrated in this book.

Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: music, maori
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1869401441
ISBN-13: 9781869401443

This work is a record of ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and an exploration of the impact of European music on this tradition. It draws on diverse written and oral sources, and includes some 1300 recorded songs, interviews with singers and numerous eyewitness accounts.

Authors:Peter Aimer, Jack Vowles, Susan Banducci, Jeffrey Kar
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: second, mmp, election, zealand, new, representation, trial, proportional
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1869402650
ISBN-13: 9781869402655

Tracing the transition of a democracy as it moves in between electoral systems, this book details the current and past public opinion surrounding New Zealand’s 1999 election. As a result of the second election under the Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) system, New Zealand elected a change in government, a minority center-left coalition of the Labor and Alliance parties. As an independent survey that objectively studies the country’s political environment, this book adds to the local debate regarding the MMP electoral system, which will continue as New Zealand looks ahead to the upco

Author: Mervyn McLean
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: dance, music, polynesian, song, weavers
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2003-01-28
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 186940212X
ISBN-13: 9781869402129

Based on thorough research and meticulous scholarship, it covers in its first part regional music and dance, exploring in detail the musical traditions of twenty specific areas, including the Society Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Uvea and Futuna, the Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand. In the second part McLean describes the musical instruments and the uses, performance, composition, teaching and structure of music across the entire region. He studies the impact of European music on traditional music and includes a chapter on modern music and da

Author: Philip Temple
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: wakefields, conscience, sort
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1869402766
ISBN-13: 9781869402761

This in-depth portrait of the Wakefield family, who played such a major role in British overseas settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 19th century, is written with a novelistic flavor, using personal letters and journals to bring to life this group of talented but morally complex individuals whose exploits spanned the globe, and who remain an indelible part of British colonial history.

Author: Angela Ballara
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: kingitanga
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1869402022
ISBN-13: 9781869402020

Since the mid-1800’s Te Kingitanga has been a force in New Zealand society. The Maori King movement combines spiritual and political elements which conserve the "turangawaewae" (standpoints) of the past with practical leadership in the contemporary Maori world. This collection of 14 biographies of leaders has been put together to celebrate the settlement of the Tainui claim and the royal apology given by Queen Elizabeth to the Tainui people in 1995.

Author: B. H. Easton
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Keywords: zealand, new, commericialisation
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1869401735
ISBN-13: 9781869401733

This text examines the origins, theory, history and politics of the dramatic change in economic policy in New Zealand, from Robert Muldoon’s interventionalism to Roger Douglas’s commercialization. It is illustrated with case studies including broadcasting, cultural policy, education, environment and heritage, the system of government, health, the labour market and science.