Blue smoke

The website of music historian Chris Bourke.

New Zealand blues and views

A website about blues in New Zealand.

New Zealand Country Music Association

The Country Music Association is a collective of clubs, organisations and people involved with country music.

New Zealand folksong

Lyrics, guitar chords and background to a range of New Zealand folk songs.

NZ country music

A New Zealand country music information site.

Phil Garland

The website of folk musician and folk-song collector Phil Garland.

Bailey, Rona, and Herbert Roth, eds. Shanties by the way: a selection of New Zealand popular songs and ballads. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1967.

Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

Cleveland, Les. The great New Zealand songbook. Auckland: Godwit, 1991.

Colquhoun, Neil, ed. Song of a young country. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2010.

Garland, Phil. Faces in the firelight: New Zealand folk song & story. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2009.

Spittle, Gordon. Counting the beat: a history of New Zealand song. Wellington: GP Publications, 1997.