Description

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An essential text for anyone studying Polynesian music and culture or Maori, Pacific Island, or New Zealand history, this final volume of the redesigned edition of the classic study of Maori music contains new translations of traditional Maori songs—the waiata. Study of the waiata is enhanced by the included recordings of the songs performed by traditional Maori singers.

About the Author

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A. T. Ngata was a Ngati Porou leader, a land reformer, a politician, and a scholar. Pei Te Hurinui Jones was a Ngati Maniapoto leader and a bilingual scholar who published extensively in English and Maori, translating Shakespeare's plays and compiling the Tainui traditions published in Nga Iwi O Tainui.

Praise For…

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"A rich source for continuing research and scholarship in all sorts of areas—both nationally and internationally. It is also a prime text in teaching Maori language, literature and tribal history."  —Richard Benton, director, James Henare Maori Research Centre