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On Song

Stories Behind New Zealand's Pop Classics
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On Song is a lively journey through New Zealand's diverse pop landscape. Prolific music journalist Simon Sweetman has interviewed the writers and performers of beloved Kiwi classics, presenting 'in conversation' text that illuminates the fascinating stories behind the pop songs we all know and love, all complemented with a plethora of artists' personal imagery and archival photography. A stunning portrait of modern New Zealand through music.

Accolades

Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Illustrated Book 2013.
Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Nielsen Award for Best Book 2013.
Shortlisted for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Typography 2013.

Author Biography

Simon Sweetman is a freelance music writer. He is the popular music critic for the Dominion Post and writer of 'Blog on the Tracks', daily music musings for Stuff.co.nz. His work has also appeared in the New Zealand Listener, North & South, Rip It Up, Sunday Star-Times, Herald on Sunday, Salient and The Package. He has provided comment for Radio New Zealand National, RadioLIVE, Newstalk ZB, Radio Active and TVNZ's 'Good Morning'. He lives in Wellington with his wife Katy and their son Oscar. They share the house with far too many records and their cats Sylvie and Baxter. On Song is his first book.
Release date NZ
October 24th, 2012
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
New Zealand
Illustrations
illustrations
Imprint
Penguin Books (NZ)
Pages
208
Publisher
Penguin Group (NZ)
Dimensions
218x268x25
ISBN-13
9780143568162
Product ID
20819874

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