Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen: A Harmony of Frenzy [Hardcover]

Examining corporeal expressions of indigenousness from an historical perspective, this book highlights the development of cultural hybridity in New Zealand via the popular performing arts, contributing new understandings of racial, ethnic, and gender identities through performance. The author offers an insightful and welcome examination of New Zealand performing arts via case studies of drama, music, and dance, performed both domestically and internationally. As these examples show, notions of modern New Zealand were shaped and understood in the creation and reception of popular culture. Highlighting embodied indigenous cultures of the past provides a new interpretation of the development of New Zealand's cultural history and adds an unexplored dimension in understanding the relationships between M?ori (indigenous New Zealander) and P?keh? (non-M?ori) throughout the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.

Chapter 1 Prologue/Introduction
Chapter 2 M?ori, New Zealand and Empire on stage
Chapter 3 Alfred Hill and Princess Iwa: M?ori Music and Musical Hybridity
Chapter 4 Performing landscape, people and stories: Rotorua and the Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett
Chapter 5 A 'Harmony of Frenzy': M?ori in Manhattan 1909-1910
Chapter 6 'Maori-land' on film
Chapter 7 Encore/Conclusion

In Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen: A Harmony of Frenzy, Marianne Schultz argues that performance is central to understanding the history of New Zealand & the book pushes the conversation about cultural performance forward and succeeds in making her point that understanding New Zealands history requires an examination of M
ori and P
keh
performance. Her approach will be particularly helpful to scholars interested in researching how embodied cultural practices shaped conceptions of race and nation & . (Joanna Das, H-ANZAU, H-Net Reviews, Ml“+