Access

Something I’ve been meaning to do for some time (two years!) is alert interested readers to some new digital access links on the notunlikeatrumpet Publications page.

These include for my Masters and PhD theses. Several times I have tried to encourage Victoria University of Wellington Library to make these open-access – to no avail. So, about two years ago I put PDFs of both online. For your convenience, here are the links:

• ‘Making our own—two ethnographic case studies of the vernacular in New Zealand music: tramping club singsongs and the Māori guitar strumming style’ (PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington/Massey University [New Zealand School of Music], 2012)
• ‘There’s a sound of many voices in the camp and on the track—a descriptive analysis of folk music collecting in New Zealand, 1955-1975’ (MA thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Incidentally, since uploading these PDFs, they have been downloaded around 650 times.

With the various articles that have been published over the years, I always try to add an open-access link if there is one. Recently I discovered that several have become available through Google Scholar, including my first peer-reviewed effort back in 2007:

• ‘“Earnest spade work”: the New Zealand Folklore Society, 1966-1975‘, Journal of Folklore Research 44/2-3 (2007), 127-160.
• ‘Innocence and experience’ [review of the book Memories of early years and other writings], Journal of New Zealand Literature 33 (2015), 159-165.