Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

This volume studies the relationships between government and the popular music
industries, comparing three Anglophone nations: Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. At a …

This monograph examines the relationship between music and memory as it relates to the
Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). Drawing upon a wide variety of sources in many languages, it …

Abstract In Aotearoa New Zealand, Maori are overrepresented in criminal and mental health
contexts, comprising only 14.9% of the nation, yet over 50% of institutional populations …

Both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand offer a different set of case studies than what
might otherwise be expected from the Routledge Global Popular Music Series. As editors …

This chapter explores themes arising from diverse examples of community music making in
the neighboring Pacific nations of Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa. These nations are …

This is an ethnomusicological study of piobaireachd in New Zealand, undertaken from 2010
to 2013. Piobaireachd is accepted as the classical music for the Highland bagpipe, arising …

In his contribution to a special issue of Ethnomusicology marking the 50th anniversary of the
Society for Ethnomusicology, Stephen Wild raised the notion of an Antipodean 'voice'in …

Jack [John] Stanley Body is a New Zealand composer whose eclecticism is culturally and
geographically very wide; he is prolific in his creative outputs; he is well-known nationally …

During the latter part of the nineteenth-century gold-mining era in Central Otago, New
Zealand, Won Kee was a well-known Chinese merchant living in Cromwell. His activities …