Story: Māori composers – ngā kaitito waiata

More links and websites

• Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead

  The Arts Foundation’s page on Gillian Karawe Whitehead.

• Gillian Whitehead

  Biographical information on Gillian Karawe Whitehead, from SOUNZ.

• Mōteatea

  A Māori Television series about the origins and meaning of ancient waiata.

• Tāmata toiere

  A website about haka and waiata and their composers.

• Waka huia archive 1997

  A 1997 episode of the TVNZ programme Waka huia, focusing on Ngāti Porou composer Tuini Ngāwai and her niece Ngoi Pēwhairangi.

More suggestions and sources

• Ngata, Āpirana Turupa. Ngā mōteatea: he maramara rere nō ngā waka maha. 4 vols. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004–7.
• Ngāwai, Tuini. Tuini: her life and her songs. Tokomaru Bay: Hokowhitu-a-Tu; Gisborne: Te Rau Press, 1985.