Name: The incredible legacy of the Māori showbands
Uploaded: 2020-01-11T10:18:55+13:00
Duration: 6 min 27 s
Description: Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a web series about Māori issues and stuff. This month: the Māori showbands and the remarkable era that saw Māori artists topping the charts in New Zealand and beyond.

A webseries about Māori issues and stuff hosted by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara, Ngāti Rango). Made with support from NZ On Air. [2017-2019]

Kaupapa on the Couch

Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a web series about Māori issues and stuff. This month: the Māori showbands and the remarkable era that saw Māori artists topping the charts in New Zealand and beyond.

Written and presented by Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara, Ngāti Rango)

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a web series about Māori issues and stuff. This month: the Māori showbands and the remarkable era that saw Māori artists topping the charts in New Zealand and beyond. 


The incredible legacy of the Māori showbands

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: We have a look at what family means in different cultures and the effects of colonisation on whānau. 


Do family and whānau mean the same thing?

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: we went to the Māoriland Film Festival to talk to some passionate Māori and indigenous filmmakers about why we need to see ourselves on the big screen. 


Māoriland Film Festival: why we need to see ourselves onscreen

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month we talk about Māori media: where to from here? 


Māori media: where to from here?

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In Māori culture, the head is tapu (spiritually restricted) and therefore hair holds a lot of mana (power/authority). Our ancestors conveyed meaning and status with their hair, and dressed it with a beautiful array of oils and ornaments. 


What does your hair say about you?

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries from The Spinoff about Māori issues and stuff, hosted by Leonie Hayden. This episode: HĀKARI. Learn how to party like your ancestors, from hāngi techniques to understanding tikanga Māori around food and celebration. 


HĀKARI: celebrate the Māori way!

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: to celebrate International Women’s Day, we look at the role of Māori women and some of the badass wāhine toa that came before. 


Māori women rule

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: how did we get from Hawaiki to Aotearoa?  We look at our ocean voyaging ancestors, and how the tradition of wayfinding was resurrected again. 


Get on the waka!

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: the invasion of Parihaka and why it needs to be remembered. 


The invasion of Parihaka and why it needs to be remembered

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa On The Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: what do we mean when we refer to our mountains and rivers are ancestors? Episode three looks at the world-leading legislation in Aotearoa that recognises Te Urewera national park and the Whanganui river as people. 


Rivers are people too!

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Nau mai, haere mai ki Kaupapa on the Couch, a webseries about Māori issues and stuff. This month: the Māori seats. What are they and who cares about them?  


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Do family and whānau mean the same thing?

The incredible legacy of the Māori showbands

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Māori media: where to from here?

What does your hair say about you?

HĀKARI: celebrate the Māori way!

Māori women rule

Get on the waka!

The invasion of Parihaka and why it needs to be remembered

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