Story: Popular music

More links and websites

• Amplifier

  New Zealand music online.

• AudioCulture

  Online history of New Zealand popular music.

• Blue smoke

  The website of music historian Chris Bourke.

• The Film Archive – ready to roll?

  100 New Zealand music videos, from the Film Archive.

• New Zealand Music Commission

  The New Zealand Music Commission works to promote and support the New Zealand music industry.

• Nothing’s going to happen: the story of New Zealand rock

  American music critic Alex Ross’s 1995 article on New Zealand rock music.

• Radio New Zealand: Blue smoke

  Chris Bourke’s radio series about the birth of popular music in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

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

• Eggleton, David. Ready to fly. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2004.

• Shute, Gareth. New Zealand rock: 1987–2007. Auckland: Random House, 2008.

• Spittle, Gordon. Counting the beat: a history of New Zealand song. Wellington: GP Publications, 1997.

• Thomson, John Mansfield. The Oxford history of New Zealand music. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991.