An edition of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964
(2010)
Blue Smoke
The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964
by Chris Bourke
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From the author's Preface:
"Blue Smoke" is a history of New Zealand popular music in the days before rock 'n roll. I felt there was a gap, not in the market but in our understanding: how we got from Alfred Hill's 'Waiata Poi' to Rim D. Paul's 'Poi Poi Twist' seemed to be a mystery.
For my purposes, 'popular music' is a genre, not a description. Also popular in this period - the mid-twentieth century - were brass bands, bagpipers and choirs. But they are hardly mentioned in this book, which looks at the evolution of modern popular music as an industry: the changes in musical fashions, technology and social mores.
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New Zealand, music, Music, Popular music, History and criticismPlaces
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Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964
2010, Auckland University Press
Softcover
9781869404550
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Table of Contents
Preface. VII
Acknowledgements. IX
ONE Welcome to the Jazz Age: The 1920s. 3
TWO Mood Swings: The 1930s. 47
THREE Music Declares War: 1939-1945. 97
FOUR The Birth of a Recording Industry: The Late 1940s. 153
FIVE Canaries and Cowboys: 1950s Pop Scenes. 191
SIX Sunsets and Sunrises: Into the 1960s. 261
NOTES. 352
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. 365
INDEX. 366
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