Following his highly respected Maori Music, Mervyn McLean presents a companion volume which takes into account the entire sweep of Polynesian music and dance.
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Following his highly respected Maori Music, Mervyn McLean presents a companion volume which takes into account the entire sweep of Polynesian music and dance.
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Add this copy of Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance to cart. $425.00, new condition, Sold by Paradox Books USA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from FORT COLLINS, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by University of Hawaii Press.
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New in new dust jacket. Quarto hardcover with dust jacket-full black cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Glossy illustrated black DJ. Sewn binding. x + 543, illustrated with maps, drawings, 165 photographs, 80 musical examples; 3 appendixes. bibliography, index; CD (Total time 71: 56) in rear pocket is a sampler containing songs, dance-songs, and instrumental music from areas studied in the book. 1st American Edition, 1st Printing. FIrst published by in New Zealand by Auckland University Press. CONDITION: Book AS NEW, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked and unread; CD unplayed and as new; DJ AS NEW, not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. CONTENT: "Based on thorough research and meticulous scholarship, Weavers of Song covers in its first part regional music and dance, exploring in detail the musical traditions of twenty specific areas, including the Society Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Uvea and Futuna, the Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, Hawaii, and New Zealand. In the second part McLean descries the musical instruments and the uses, performance, composition, teaching and structure of music across the entire region."-from the DJ. Scarce in this condition. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.
