Chris Bourke
Autore di Crowded House: Something So Strong
Sull'Autore
Chris Bourke is a writer, journalist, editor and radio producer. He has been staff writer and arts and books editor at the New Zealand Listener, editor of the music magazines Rip It Up and Real Groove, producer of Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning programme and many documentaries, and author of mostra altro the biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong (Pan Macmillan, 1997), described by the Australian Book Review as a book 'by which writing about popular music in Australasia will be measured for years to come'. Bourke began Blue Smoke as the 2006 research fellow at New Zealand's National Library, and wrote much of it in 2008 while writer-in-residence at the University of Waikato. He has a degree in music history from Victoria University of Wellington. mostra meno
Opere di Chris Bourke
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- New Zealand
- Istruzione
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Organizzazioni
- New Zealand Listener
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Writer-in-residence, Waikato University (2007)
Research Fellow, National Library (2006)
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 10
The one thing I would have liked is brief guides to the musical aspects of the genres being discussed - although I know I can go to a music dictionary and find out the musical characteristics of bebop as distinct from swing, the flow of the book would be helped by simple explanations for non-musicians like me.… (altro)