Full Description
Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies, Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth, one of the most published authors on Irish popular music.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Popular Music in Ireland: Mapping the Field; Part I: Music Industries and Historiographies; 1. A History of Irish Record Labels from the 1920s to 2019; 2. Broadcasting Rock: The Fanning Sessions as a Gateway to New Music; 3. Don't Believe A Word?: Memoirs of Irish Rock Musicians; 4. Raging Mother Ireland: Faith, Fury and Feminism in the Body, Voice and Songs of Sinéad O'Connor; 5. "Missing from the Record": Zrazy and Women's Music in Ireland; 6. "Alternative Ulster": The First Wave of Punk in Northern Ireland (1976-1983); Part 2: Roots and Routes; 7. Irish Lady Sings the Blues: History, Identity and Ottilie Patterson; 8. The Politics of Sound: Modernity and Post-Colonial Identity in Irish-language Popular Song; 9. Communal Voices: The Songs of Tom a'tSeoighe and Ciarán Ó Fátharta; 10. Popular Music as a Weapon: Irish Rebel Songs and the Onset of the Northern Ireland Troubles; 11. "...Practically Rock Stars Now": Changing Relations Between Traditional and Popular Music in a Post-Revival Tradition; 12. "Other Voices" in Media Representations of Irish Popular Music; Part 3: Scenes and Networks; 13. Assembling the Underground: Scale, Value and Visibility in Dublin's DIY Music Scene; 14. Parochial Capital and the Cork Music Scene; 15. Death of a Local Scene? Music in Dublin in the Digital Age; 16. Fit for Consumption?: Fanzines and Fan Communication in Irish DIY Music Scenes; 17. Hip Hop Interpellation: Rethinking Autochthony and Appropriation in Irish Rap; Coda 18. Making Spaces, Saving Places: Modern Irish Popular Music and the Green Turn; Afterword 19. Songs of Love: A conversation with Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy); A Selected Bibliography on Irish Popular Music; Notes on Contributors; Index
