Author : Marianne Schultz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349720965
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)
Book Synopsis Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen by : Marianne Schultz
Download or read book Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen written by Marianne Schultz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.