Blue Smoke (book)
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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]
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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]
