31 reasons to love New Zealand music

A selection of stories about New Zealand music, from NZHistory.

The Auckland punk scene

A website about punk and dance music in New Zealand, written by someone closely involved in those scenes.

Disruptiv music

Auckland graffiti art website.

Thread

A website about NZ fashion, music and culture.

Wellington café culture

Tales of Wellington’s café scene, from NZHistory.

Bauer, Laurie, and Winifred Bauer. Playground talk: dialects and change in New Zealand English. Wellington: School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2003.

Dix, John. Stranded in paradise: New Zealand rock and roll, 1955 to the modern era. Auckland: Penguin, 2005.

Lindsey, David G., and Robin A. Kearns. ‘The writing’s on the wall: graffiti, territory and urban space in Auckland.’ New Zealand Geographic 50 no. 2 (1994): 7–13.

Shute, Gareth. Hip hop music in Aotearoa. Auckland: Reed, 2004.

Yska, Redmer. All shook up: the flash bodgie and the rise of the New Zealand teenager in the fifties. Auckland: Penguin, 1993.