''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

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published by the

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. Bourke is a music writer who has been writing about music since 1987. He wrote ''Blue Smoke'' while on the

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’s research fellowship in 2006 and later as writer-in-residence at the

University of Waikato , mottoeng = For The People , established = 1964; years ago , endowment = (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $263.6 million (31 December 2020) , chancellor = Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ , vice_chancellor = Neil Quigley , cit ...

. Blue Smoke won the 2011

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