Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen

A Harmony of Frenzy

Marianne Schultz

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Palgrave Macmillan
14 April 2016

Theatre Studies; Music; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Sociology

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.

By: Marianne Schultz
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2016 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9781349720965
ISBN 10: 1349720968
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 14 April 2016
Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marianne Schultz is Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is the Auckland Advisor for DANZ- Dance Aotearoa New Zealand. Marianne danced professionally in the United States and New Zealand and has taught for numerous companies and schools. Her articles and chapters on dance and the performing arts have appeared in Theatre Journal, Dance Research, Melbourne Historical Journal, New Zealand Journal of History, Brolga, Te Ara/ the Encyclopedia of NZ, Moving Oceans: Celebrating Dance in the South Pacific, and Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama.

Reviews for Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen: A Harmony of Frenzy

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 Zealand's history requires an examination of Maori and Pakeha 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, May, 2018) Schultz's analysis is as comprehensive as it is impressive. Readers will appreciate the meticulous care taken in the footnotes (many of which will prompt readers to take Schultz's ideas further). Moreover, by bringing readers to more contemporary performing arts ... Schultz reminds us that the questions that lay at the heart of her text remain open and subject to our continued interrogation. ... Schultz's book is a valuable contribution that nudges historical and post-colonial debate in New Zealand ... . (Geoffery Z. Kohe, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 36 (01), 2018)