Matthew Bannister (musician)
Matthew Bannister (born 1962) is a Scottish-born New Zealand musician, journalist and academic.
Matthew Bannister
Academic career[edit]
In 1998, Bannister returned to full-time study as a PhD candidate in the Department of Film, TV and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, graduating in 2003. His thesis was titled White Man's Soul: Pakeha masculinities in the popular music of New Zealand / Aotearoa.[3] A revised version of the thesis appeared as a book, White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Guitar Rock, in the Ashgate Popular Music and Folk Series in 2006.
He now works at the Waikato Institute of Technology (WINTEC) as a Theory/Post Graduate advisor in the School of Media Arts. In 2021 his book Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi was published.[4]
Personal life[edit]
Bannister's father Peter was a botanist working at Otago University. Bannister is married to Dribbling Darts/The Weather bandmate Alice Bulmer.[5]