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Knowledge of Maori music is sacred but will add things to this section in due course and some of our music tracks soon.
A Waiata is a song. It can be a lament, a love song or a full on epic. The metaphors in the songs the Maori sing teach events, beliefs, and recollections of more ancient members of the tribe and their geneology. It is passed either between two people, or from one generation to the other. Waiata was a principle teaching method in Kura Wananga, the school of sacred knowledge.
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BTW ;-) THE MAORI LANGUAGE IS RELATIVELY FUN TO LEARN Give it a go.
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Music:
John Rowles
Herbs
Brooke Fraser
Marie -Adele McArthur
OMC
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125,000 Maori live in Australia. Welcome "home" to you!
Kazwa
influences
Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys,
Octoba
hip hop, R&B
rap
Natasha
sounds like
Contemporary Folk, Country ,Blues, Pop & Rock
Movies:
At least 600 years before
Christ, it was known to the ancients that a piece of Amber when excited by rubbing would attract straws. Lodestone had the property of drawing iron.
Humboldt saw an Indian child of the Orinoco rubbing the seed of a trailing plant to make it attract the wild cotton; and, perhaps, a prehistoric tribesman of the Baltic or the plains of Sicily found in the yellow stone he had polished the mysterious power of collecting dust. The History of Electricity & Magnetism - by John Munroe
We like Action Movies, Westerns, and never miss a good NZ Documentary
NZ Bays and Early Maori Settlements
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Tauranga Bay Buller Westland NZ.
New Zealand Lakes of the Maori People
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60 miles north of Wellington is the island of Papaitonga " The Beauty of the South ". The extent of the lake, called " Wawiri ", is approx 125 acres with two islets, was home to the Muaupoko people. At one time there was no bush on the island, only some Karaka trees which were planted by it's residents which may have numbered up to 800 people. The smaller island, which was built entirely by human hands and many canoe loads of shell, soil, and vegetation was called Papawharangi. The scene of a great slaughter during the Maori Wars, vegetation on the island silently conceals it's ghastly history and thousands of human bones.
Greenstone River NZ
Arahura, 35 miles in length from sea to the mountains. This is the only source of the worlds finest jade.
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Photo Depiction of Early Maori Life
Television:
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Books:
Michael Kings Photographic and Social History,
Kristen Zambuka, Cleve Barrow, Colin Monteath, A.W. Reed, F.W. Miller, Frontier of Dreams, Geoff Chapple, John Cobb, John Munroe, and many others
Heroes:
" Ladies and gentlemen the three most important things in life, faith, hope and love .
It is with my love that I thank you all for sharing this night with me " - Sir Howard Morrison's spectacular performance of How Great Thou Art in English & Maori. Listen Here .
*~ Queen Wikitoria & Elizabeth II of England , World Artists, Poets and Songwriters, Poi Swingers, & Wahine Clubs everywhere. Anyone who ever wrote and sung a brilliant DUET. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Howard Morrison Quartet, Prince Tui Teka, Dean Waretini, Ardijah, Johnny Cooper, Dennis Marsh, Bunny Walters, Erina Clarke, Mark Williams, Jon Stevens, Moana & the Moa Hunters , Tina Cross, Sonny Day, Golden Harvest, etc etc. Ahh..the days when the biggest bling you owned was the bell on your bike,,, 45 and 78 rpm LP's sounded amazing on the La Gloria..yip..those were the good old days of NZ music.
