Chris Bourke Photo: Supplied
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.
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.
