Publisher's Synopsis
New Zealand music has been made with electric guitars, European orchestral instruments, laptops, bones, voices, skin, wood, PVC piping, air, magnetic tape and digital media. Our musicians and composers are many and varied, whether within these shores or travelling the world. Being both writer and musician, editor Bill Direen is well equipped to look at music and music-making in our culture and has produced a great mix of work in Landfall 219. The musical aspect of poetry -- phrasing, timing and the insinuation of meaning during performance -- is an aspect that creative writers might respond to. Musical aspects of prose -- alliterative and rhythmical or structural devices -- may carry meaning quite as much as syntactical ones. There are essays and reviews on a musical theme, as well as writings related to the experience of listening and the role of NZ music and ways of making it in a wider context.
