The Singing Kiwi


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Across the line - All bound to go - At the Mataura - Ballad of Captain Cook - Ballad of Davy Gray - Ballad of Stan Graham - Ballad of Kaitawa - Ballad of the kiwi - Banks of the Waikato - Black Billy blues - Black Billy tea - Blow boys blow - The bold and saucy china - The boys of the track - Canterbury jig - The Charleston drum - Cheer boys cheer - Cherry stones - Concertina Joe - Corned beef and cabbage - The day the pub burned down - Death song of the Huntly miners - Down a country road - Driftwood - The drover's dream - The dying bushman 1 - The dying bushman 2 - The dying bushman 3 - Faded pictures - Farewell to Geraldine - Farewell to New Zealand - Farewell to the gold - Farewell to the Grey - The final track - Full and plenty - Glenmore jig - Gone to Maoriland - The good old way - The green new chum - Greenstone Billy - Hands across the sea - Hillsides of Bendigo - The Hokonui Hills - Homeless drifter - How are you, mate? - Hunger in the air - I'm a young man - I've packed my traps - Gabriel's gold - In the morning - Kawarau gold - The KB cannonball - Land ahoy - Land of the west - Last drop of whisky - The latter end of spring - Leatherman - The life of the high country shepherd - Long and friendly road - Long time ago - Man upon the track - Molesworth - Mother Nature's children - A musterer's lament - A new chum out from England - No regrets - Off to the diggings - The old Dunstan track - The old Forty Niner - The old gumdigger's bar - The old identity - Old Jimmy Possum - The old mud hut - The old scrub bull - The old station gate - Pelorus Jack - Poll the grogseller - The ringer's stand - Rocking the cradle - Rose of Red Conroy - A sailor's lament - Shantyman - The shearing's coming round - The shepherd's dream - The shepherd's song - The ships sail in - Shore cry - Smoko - Snowed in - So long mate - Song for Captain Cook - Song of the drover - Southward bound - The springtime brings on the shearing - Springtime in the mountains - The stable lad - The star hotel - Tangiwai disaster - Three blackbirds - Tuapeka gold - The voyage of the buffalo - Walking of the land - Wheels of arrow - When I was a young man - When the tui calls - While the billy boils - Wind in the tussock - Wool away Jack - Wool commandeer - Yorky's run.




Going on a Kiwi Holiday


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Les Cleveland


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Les Cleveland is one of New Zealand's finest photographers... This book surveys six decades of Cleveland's work, with 60 stunning images printed in large-format duotone. His work from the 1950s and 60s documents a way of life in Westland that has now largely disappeared as well as distinctive and culturally important buildings in Wellington.--From book flap.




The Kiwi Hokey Tokey


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You put your pokey beak in, you put your pokey beak out, you put your pokey beak in and you SHAKE it all about. Join the fun as the cool-as Kiwi clan invites friends to a dance party down on the farm. With downloadable song by Pio Terei, sung to the popular children's favourite.




Good-bye Maoriland


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They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden crosses be swept away – We'll never forget our boys. – Jane Morison, ‘We'll never forget our boys', 1917 Be it ‘Tipperary' or ‘Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside the human experience of war.




The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture


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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world's musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology's fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition




The Kauri Family


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"Depicts the natural treasures that may be found in a kauri forest. Spot the kiwi, the tuatara, the weta and more - even the twinkling Matariki stars above the treetops"--Publisher information.




The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter


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This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d'Urfey through to Kanye West.







The Music of the Waters


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