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University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Australasia

Archive of Maori and Pacific Music

Museum or Collection Type:
Cultural History & Art
Institutional Type:
Special Type: Archive
Subject: 
Musicology

Address:
Postal address:, Archive of Maori and Pacific Music, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. Location: Room 109-G30, Level G, General Library, 5 Alfred Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Contact:
Nigel Champion, Archive Manager
ampm@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 373 7999
Fax: +64 9 373 7441

Links:
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music
University of Auckland

Description:
The Archive houses an ethnographic sound collection relating to the Pacific which is of national and international significance.

Further Reading:
Archive Publications:

McLean, Mervyn (ed.), 1983. Catalogue of Maori Purposes Fund Board Recordings. 260 pp. [Detailed contents, together with indexes and concordances, of some 60 hours of recordings made between 1953 and 1958. Reprinted in 1995.]

McLean, Mervyn (ed.), 1991. Catalogue of Radio New Zealand Recordings of Maori Events 1938- 1950. 169 pp., [A catalogue of ten Maori events of historical significance.]

McLean, Mervyn and Jeny Curnow (eds), 1992. Catalogue of McLean Collection of Recordings of Traditional Maori Songs 1958-1979. 431 pp. [A fully documented catalogue of some 1300 traditional Maori waiata, including hitherto unpublished information about the songs as supplied by the singers.]

McLean (ed.), 1993. Catalogue of National Museum Cylinder Collection. 300pp. [A catalogue of the historically important collection of Maori material recorded by Sir Apirana Ngata and others from 1919 to1934.]

Catalogue of McLean Collection of Recordings of Traditional Music of Aitutaki and Mangaia, Cook Islands. Mervyn McLean (ed.), 2008. 236pp. [A fully documented catalogue including texts, and annotated translations of several hundred songs, recorded Sept-Nov 1967]

Mokena, Tane (comp.),1999. Te Pataka Reo. An Introductory Guide to the Maori Language Recordings of the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music. 32pp.


 




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