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CAMPBELL:BEAUTIFUL DAY-40 YEARS ROCK (R)
Sean Campbell
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Description for CAMPBELL:BEAUTIFUL DAY-40 YEARS ROCK (R)
Paperback. 'Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock' tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a period of rapid, decisive change. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports.,. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 253 x 17. Weight in Grams: 636.
Beautiful Day introduces representative songs from 1964 to the present by a range of Irish popular musicians. The book combines written text with photographs to produce an attractive volume that is evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has widespread, cross-demographic appeal. Music has played an important role throughout the island of Ireland since ancient times, and it continues to represent one of the principal cultural avenues for the expression and exploration of contemporary Irish identities. Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a ... Read more
Beautiful Day introduces representative songs from 1964 to the present by a range of Irish popular musicians. The book combines written text with photographs to produce an attractive volume that is evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has widespread, cross-demographic appeal. Music has played an important role throughout the island of Ireland since ancient times, and it continues to represent one of the principal cultural avenues for the expression and exploration of contemporary Irish identities. Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9780953535354
SKU
V9780953535354
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Ref
99-10
About Sean Campbell
Sean Campbell lectures in the Department Of Communication Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University. Gerry Smyth lectures in the Faculty Of Media, Arts And Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of the highly regarded Decolonization and Criticism (Pluto 1998) and Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination (Palgrave 2001).
Reviews for CAMPBELL:BEAUTIFUL DAY-40 YEARS ROCK (R)
?The book in question is an excellent and thorough analysis of the development of Irish rock music over the past four decades. It is astute and erudite in its assessment of the many different strands Irish music has taken during that period, economic and concise in its delivery, and intelligently leavens its more theoretical meditations with witty, humourous and insightful ... Read more