Blue Smoke (book)

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 is a prize-winning book by Chris Bourke on the early history of music in New Zealand published by the Auckland University Press.

[1][2] Bourke is a music writer who has been writing about music since 1987.

[3] He wrote Blue Smoke while on the National Library’s research fellowship in 2006 and later as writer-in-residence at the University of Waikato.

[4] Blue Smoke won the 2011 New Zealand Post Book awards.

[5][6] This New Zealand music-related article is a stub.