{"id":413,"date":"2014-05-22T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:55:12","slug":"nz-music-month-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/nz-music-month-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Music Month 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post prepared by Amanda Mills, Liaison Librarian – Music and AV<\/p>\n

Music Month has rolled around once again! This year, to draw attention to the recordings and music-themed material we have in the collections, we have created six posters that illustrate our interesting (and often decorative) holdings.<\/p>\n

\"Archway<\/a><\/p>\n

The posters are currently displayed in the University of Otago\u2019s stone archway on campus. They represent the various aspects of the music collections, including The Dunedin Sound,\u00a0locally-focussed music sheets, and early 20th<\/sup> Century M\u0101ori music released on major international labels (and the attractive sleeve that accompanies it). We have also included an image of some of our more interesting and rare formats: cylinder, mini-CD, and (intriguingly) a disc the size of a business card. Also featured are examples of our music posters and music ephemera: programmes dating back to the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Some of the images are well-known: the cover of \u2018Doledrums\u2019 by The Chills is hand drawn by the bands founder, vocalist and songwriter, Martin Phillipps; while the cover of \u2018Bird Dog\u2019 by the Verlaines is by John Collie, local musician and artist. The sleeve for Columbia Records\u2019 M\u0101ori Recordings would have been familiar in the 1930s, but is now mostly forgotten to all except collectors and music historians. Graphically designed in red and black, the sleeve speaks to the M\u0101ori Marae design on the disc\u2019s label. This label was used for local M\u0101ori recordings on Columbia Records.<\/p>\n

\"Archway<\/p>\n

The eye catching poster for the Royal Comic Opera \u2018Our Miss Gibbs\u2019 dates to 1911 and this production was described in the Otago Daily Times <\/i>at the time as \u201c\u2026the Greatest Musical Comedy Success Of Our Generation.\u201d The ephemera collection includes a large number of programmes for a variety of musical events in Dunedin from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. Some colourful examples of these are represented on one poster and they demonstrate a few of the musical genres included in the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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