RECORDS

Te Ao Hou, 1970, Page 61

RECORDS reviewed by Alan Armstrong I must confess to always getting a thrill when Maori music is given serious treatment by non-Maori groups — a treatment compatible with its status as the indigenous music of this country and as an integral part of a truly national culture which has its origins here and not imported from elsewhere. In fact, to digress completely and ramble on for a moment, I sometimes wonder at New Zealanders who see nothing incongruous in dancing around a maypole and getting misty-eyed at the sound of a bagpipe, and yet who would not be seen dead doing a Maori action song and others who airily and ignorantly dismiss Maori music as imported from Hawaii or make similar vacuous statements. Several years