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Kōrero: Popular music

Dance at the Taita Youth Club, 1958

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Rock 'n' roll emerged in New Zealand in the mid-1950s and was immediately taken up by teenagers hungry for new sounds not sanctioned by their parents and radio programmers. These teenagers are dancing at the Taita Youth Centre in 1958. 

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Pictorial Parade 79. National Film Unit, 1958

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Chris Bourke, Popular music – Rock ’n’ roll and the Howard Morrison Quartet, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/42635/dance-at-the-taita-youth-club-1958 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Chris Bourke, i tāngia i te 16 September 2013.