Time to make a song and dance : cultural revolt in Auckland in the 1960s / Murray Edmond.

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Published: Pokeno : Atuanui Press, 2021.
Main Author:
Edmond, Murray, 1949- (Author)
Subjects:
Social change > New Zealand > Auckland.
Auckland (N.Z.) > History > 20th century.
Format: Book
Time to make a song and dance : cultural revolt in Auckland in the 1960s /
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Listening for the screaming
  • PART ONE
  • Chapter one: The Sixties were a woeful time : Donna Awatere and Vanya Lowry remember their fathers
  • Chapter two: Sex and the City : Anna Hoffman's progress
  • Chapter three: The Golden City on the fussy train : the scupltress, the poet, the exotic dancer and the ariki
  • Chapter four: A man I am proud to call a friend : Ronald Barker and Auckland's first professional theatre
  • Chapter five: The buttock of a dead cow : Barbara Hepworth sidesteps Tom Pearce
  • PART TWO
  • Chapter six: I don't stand for the Queen : festival bombshell needed
  • Chapter seven: Beards, barefeet and jeans ( jalopies at the kerbside) : Auckland goes to the movies
  • Chapter eight: A fine mate you turned out to be : the artist, gender and fiction
  • PART THREE
  • Chapter nine: The starving communist in the Band Rotunda : performing protest in Auckland
  • Chapter ten: This sort of thing doesn't happen in Dunedin : the Auckland Bombings, 1969-1970.
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
  • Janet Frame and her niece Pamela Gordon outside the caravan at Pamela's family home in Northcote, Oct. 1963
  • King Farouk and Gertrude Stein: Vanya Lowry with father, Bob, ready for the Auckland University Arts Ball, May 1963
  • Anna Hoffmann posing, Michael Illingworth and Bob Lowry alongside, doorway of Queen's Ferry, Vulcan Lane, 1960
  • Te Ariki, The Maori Chief, Molly Macalister's sculpture , at the bottom of Queen Street, July 1967
  • The opening of the Vivien Leigh Theatre, Feb.1962, Sir Douglas Robb, Vivien Leigh, Ronald Barker
  • Torso II goes on display, Auckland City Art Gal­lery, Sept. 1963
  • The Bluestars: John Harris, Murray Savidan, Rick van Bokhoven, Jim Crowley, 1966
  • Shooting Runaway in Auckland suburbia: David Manning (Colin Broadley) and his Father (William Johnstone) and film crew, 1964
  • Barry Crump and Jean Watson on their sloopWaterwitch, Cooktown, north of Cairns, 1962
  • Dr Stephen Taylor leaving Albert Park with his wife after his 40-day fast, Aug. 1970
  • Main Doors of the Supreme Court, Waterloo Quadrant, after bombing, March 1970
  • Beheaded statue of Hori Kerei (George Grey), Albert Park, Waitangi Day, 1987.

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