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Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music
Gerry Smyth
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Hardcover. Examines the history, performance and practice of Irish Rock Music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from Irish cultural criticism and Rock Music Studies the author shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues of national identity at every level, from music to performance to distribution. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGP; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
Irish contemporary popular music has had remarkable international success, but relatively little scholarly attention. Analysis of cultural identity has been dominated by the literary canon, yet music has been crucial in constructions and definitions of Irishness since the late eighteenth century. This trail-blazing book is the first cultural history of Irish rock music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from cultural criticism and music studies, Gerry Smyth shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues of national identity at every level, from music to performance to distribution and publicity. The big names, such as Rory ... Read more
Irish contemporary popular music has had remarkable international success, but relatively little scholarly attention. Analysis of cultural identity has been dominated by the literary canon, yet music has been crucial in constructions and definitions of Irishness since the late eighteenth century. This trail-blazing book is the first cultural history of Irish rock music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from cultural criticism and music studies, Gerry Smyth shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues of national identity at every level, from music to performance to distribution and publicity. The big names, such as Rory ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
260
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859183878
SKU
V9781859183878
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99-10
About Gerry Smyth
Gerry Smyth is reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of the highly regarded Decolonisation and Criticism (Pluto 1998) and the critically acclaimed Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination (Palgrave 2002).
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