History of NZ Music

okay, its time to play 'lets help ashleigh with her english research assignment which has to be finished tonight!!' ive chosen nz music for a topic (it had to be something about NZ..this was the obvious choice) so if you can post any info today (or hey, anytime after, im sure people would be intersted just to know) about the following questions, short or long it doesnt matter, but i need a teeeny bit of help from all of you who know stuff. thanks.
1 - who were the pioneers of nz popular (or underground) music in NZ, when were they around/working in music?
2 - What influenced them, and how have they influenced others?
3 - what are some of the highlights of the industry/scene of nz music?
4 - what does the future hold for nz music, where is it going?

pretty dumb questions i know but if you can offer any info at all, its much appriciated.
back to making up bullshit now....

Forums: NZ Music,

sorry, ignore the topic with the same name, im dumb and cant post a topic without fucking it up :D cheers all

maybe u should use your brain and visit the library. im sure a book was released about a year ago about the history of music and recording in New Zealand. get off ya chuffa!

hm....i spose that woulve worked if id done that a week ago...but i dont have time to get into town, sth auckland libraries have jack all, so i gave up and im changing my topic to Flying Nun. Nice.

sweet den. flying nun rocks. the D4, the datsuns, betchadupa, PanAm etc etc ROCK ON!!!!

the book to find would be

Book: For the Record
by Bryan Staff
Pub: David Bateman

Benny The datsuns aren't on flying nun.

shame. but arent they on "under the influence". or is that some other band that just sounds like them

shame to me i meant not u!

Nope they are not on Flying nun.
Go to http://www.flyingnun.co.nz for the tracklisting

Another really good book that I used for my recent speech on NZ music (which I aced by the way! yay!) is "Counting the Beat - A history of NZ song" which is written by Gordon Spittle.