Kiwi teens dig jazz
January 13th, 2021
By
Aleisha Ward
Jazz historian Dr Aleisha Ward looks at how teen entertainment magazines Count Down and Teen Beat reflected the shifting music interests of young New Zealanders in the 1960s.
Jazz in New Zealand and overseas in the 1960s
A research inquiry recently led me to look at two New Zealand 1960s teen entertainment magazines. While the client in question was interested in some of the pop and rock material, I couldn’t help but notice that there was quite a bit of jazz material in these magazines (and even classical music, too).