25 Apr 2018

Chris Bourke

From Anzac Day, 7:10 am on 25 April 2018
Chris Bourke

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Chris Bourke is the content director of AudioCulture - the noisy library of New Zealand music, and the author of the books Good-bye Maoriland: the Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War (AUP, 2010) and Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 (AUP, 2017).

Chris joins Colin Peacock to discuss - and play - New Zealand music in times of conflict.

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RNZ Concert has recorded 20 songs written by New Zealanders during the First World War - providing a musical record of campaigns and battles as well as life on the home front, encompassing hopes and fears, duty, loss and remembrance. You can listen to these rarely-heard songs on the Farewell Zealandia page.