May 29, 2013
Music soundtrack for Māori protest
Māori artists feature prominently in an exhibition of protest at the Alexander Turnbull Library put on for New Zealand Music month.
Revolting! The Sound of Protest in Aotearoa presents posters, video, albums and photos from five pivotal protest movements.
Curator Matt Steindl says songs play a crucial part in our protest movements, both as a means of bringing people together, and also as a way of making dissenting voices heard.
He says the tino rangatiratanga section was particularly rich.
"That includes music starting with the reggae bands around Wellington like Dread Beat and Blood and Aotearoa and then through the 80s with Upper Hutt Posse and then the 90s with Moana Maniapoto, right through to last year’s Conscious Uprising CD which was a bunch of artists raising money for the Urewera raids and the trial that Tame Iti and his crew were going through," Mr Steindl says.
Revolting runs until July 20 in the Turnbull Gallery at the National Library in Wellington.
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