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Chris Bourke is a writer, journalist, editor and radio producer. He has been arts and books editor at the NZ Listener, editor of Rip It Up and Real Groove, and producer of Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning with Kim Hill. He wrote the best-selling, definitive biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong (MacMillan 1997) and Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 (Auckland University Press, 2010). At the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards Blue Smoke won the People's Choice Award, the General Nonfiction Award and the Book of the Year Award. Chris Bourke is currently content director at Audioculture: The Noisy Library of New Zealand Music (www.audioculture.co.nz).

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Chris Bourke

Chris Bourke

Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964