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MediaAugust 5, 2025

The Fold: How a new history of NZ pop music reveals media’s revolutions

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Gareth Shute joins The Fold to discuss his new book, Songs From the Shaky Isles.

Gareth Shute is a historian of New Zealand music, who realised that there had never been a high level overview of the artists who shaped our pop charts. He’s just published Songs From the Shaky Isles, a book which flies through a century of recorded pop music on these shores. He joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss it, with particular reference to the way the rise of mediums like television, commercial radio and streaming impacted what was made and who got to hear it.

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