I Have Loved Me a Man: the Life and Times of Mika

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Author: Sharon Mazer; Witi Ihimaera (Foreword By)
Publication date: 04/10/2018

This book chronicles in words and pictures the life of Mika, an iconic gay Maori performance artist. Mika takes us deep inside the gay and Maori rights movements and reveals to readers a fabulous revolution in performance and identity. Mika (Neil Gudsell) grew up in Timaru, adopted into a white family, and learnt Maori culture from the back of a cereal box. He discovered disco in the 1970s, worked with Carmen, Dalvanius Prime, Merata Mita and others to develop a stage career and tour the world, played a policeman on TV in Shark in the Park and came out on screen with Harvey Keitel, playing takatapui in Jane Campions Academy Award-winning film The Piano. This highly visual book interweaves archival and socio-historical research with approximately 200 images that have been hand-picked from Mikas extensive archive. Mika ha...