Maori Music
by Mervyn McLean, Associate Professor of Ethnomusiocology and Head of Archive of Maori and Pacific Music Mervyn McLean
Category: Music

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.