Arts, literature and music links

General

• Te Ara entry on creative life in New Zealand

Music and broadcasting

• A history of the accordian in NZ hosted by the Texas Accordian Association. But wait there's more! Try here for another perspective provided by the NZ Accordian Association.
• Brief history of broadcasting in NZ. Provided by Barry Mishkind of the Broadcast Archive. Contains link to a history of Radio Hauraki.
• Douglas Lilburn Project - website to accompany the forthcoming Radio NZ series on this well-known New Zealand composer. Series produced by Roger Smith and Gareth Watkins.
• Radio Heritage Foundation - a registered non-profit charitable trust with a mandate to preserve, protect and promote radio heritage in New Zealand and around the Pacific region. Includes an on-line virtual archive, oral history program, radio documentary program [in partnership with RNZI], on-line exhibitions and much more.
• Archive of Maori and Pacific Music
  In the Anthropology Department. Houses the world's largest ethnographic sound collection relating to the Pacific. Its holdings include material from most Pacific Islands areas, and contain both commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, folk tales, oral history and interviews.
• History of New Zealand's National Anthems
• Discography of New Zealand popular music, 1960-1990
• New Zealand Music of the 60's, 70's and a bit of 80's
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on the history of music in New Zealand
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on the history of broadcasting in New Zealand
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on Maori Music
• History of Flying Nun records.
• History of Festival Mushroom records
• History of television in New Zealand.
• A brief history of the government's role in broadcasting in New Zealand, 1903-2003. (pdf)
• Milestones a New Zealand timeline of communications and computing
• The history of recording in New Zealand

Literature

• History of Print Culture in NZ - site of this project run by Humanities Society of NZ. The project's book (Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa) is now also on line - at http://www.nzetc.org/etexts/GriBook/index.html
• "'Colonial Like Ourselves': The American Influence on New Zealand Fiction, 1934-65". Article by Lawrence Jones, Department of English, University of Otago - originally published in Deep South.
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on New Zealand literature.
• Standing upright : New Zealand literature in the 1940s and 1950s
• A History of New Zealand Literature through selected online full-texts
• Colin McCahon database - A searchable database of 1600 McCahon paintings and drawings. Essays on McCahon's life and work are being developed.
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on New Zealand literary periodicals
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on New Zealand fiction
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on New Zealand poetry

Theatre and film

• A history of Gilbert and Sullivan with particular reference to Australia and New Zealand. - The main period covered is from 1860-1910 and in the section titled "Down Under in the 19th Century" there is an extensive history of theatre in this part of the world. There are many historic photographs and the original reviews to many of the operettas first performed out here. Site created by 'Mel'.
• 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on the history of theatre in New Zealand.
• History of the Wanganui theatre - Overview of theatre and film history in New Zealand
• Film Archive - The collection of predominantly New Zealand film and video dates from 1895 to the present day.
• Film festivals on NZLive.com