Healing Maori Through Song and Dance

by Emma Johnston

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3639034090
• ISBN13: 9783639034097
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"