Te Kaharoa (E-Journal)
Not a member yet
335 research outputs found
Sort by
Matariki 2010
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to examine various aspects of Matariki, with a focus on the way in which it was commemorated at Te Papa Museum in 2010 through dance performances
Who’s Who in the Zoo: Tonga Election 2014
Get PDFThis paper reflects on fieldwork Teena Brown Pulu and Richard Pamatatau conducted in Tonga on the people’s election and the nobles’ election of November 27th 2014. Who’s who in the zoo?[i] Ethnographically speaking we mean what did voters say of the leadership and government needed, and the country’s priorities for moving forward? Furthermore, how was Tongan “life, liberty and security” made sense of? (United Nations, 1948). With Democratic Party leader ‘Akilisi Pohiva elected prime minister for the 2014 to 2018 term of government, what was different now?
Written by Teena Brown Pulu with Richard Pamatatau’s fieldwork notes woven in the text, the essay probes two critical interstices. Why do ethnic Tongans insist the authors can critique Tongan politics and society in ways they cannot for risk they will be rebuked by established canons exerting authority and control over citizens? Who then in Tonga can disrupt the taken for granted categories of class, culture, and politics, and who cannot?
Endnotes
[i] Who’s who in the zoo is Richard Pamatatau’s Master of Philosophy thesis title at Auckland University of Technology. Richard’s thesis investigates how New Zealand social pages in traditional media, e.g. the weekend pages of The New Zealand Herald newspaper, select, rank, and frame the who’s who of public celebrities
Maree Sheehan interviewed by Professor Paul Moon 2015
Get PDFThis 40-minute interview by with Maree Sheehan provides a personal exploration into Sheehan’s music career as a composer, lyricist, performer and music producer. It examines her expression of cultural knowledge and identity through her composition and collaborative processes in the waiata Kia tu mahea and Hei konei te wā o mua. The interview also looks at her newer material from her album ‘Chasing the Light’ where she discusses her compositional discourse and studio production processes. Finally the interview discusses Sheehan’s collaboration processes with other composers and performers in genres from rap to country as a music producer. The audio interview incorporates some of Sheehan’s original compositions. 
Illuminating Cultural Terrains in Dance: A Symbiotic Approach to Analysis and Interpretation
Get PDFIn a paper that I presented at Atarau Academic Symposium, and later developed in an article for Dance Research Aotearoa (Ashley, 2015), I argued that the colloquial understanding of dance as one universal language provides insufficient philosophical grounds for fostering a full understanding of contemporary, indigenous, intercultural dance. Nourishing an awareness of how dance can be understood not as one but many languages is important because it can, I contend, inform ethical practices in dance, and foster better understanding and appreciation of dance practices from diverse cultures. In the article for Dance Research Aotearoa I stated that:
Translating dances as semiotically, language-laden signs is quite a different approach to the application of Western Laban analysis and as such can reveal more about the intercultural terrains of indigenous contemporary dance.
Moreover, it could go some way towards establishing what marks ‘indigenous contemporary dance’ as different from other contemporary dance; a question that was discussed by delegates of Atarau. (2015