Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 781.6609415 EAN: 9781859183878 ISBN: 1859183875 Label: Cork University Press Manufacturer: Cork University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 260 Publication Date: 2005-09 Publisher: Cork University Press Sales Rank: 470529 Studio: Cork University Press
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Product DescriptionExamines 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.
Contemporary Irish popular music represents a set of enormously successful cultural and economic practices. Much in the same way that Irish literature was felt to have produced an inordinate number of geniuses throughout the last century, so the island seems capable of producing an endless supply of successful pop and rock acts. At the top of the pyramid are U2 who have sold in excess of 100 million albums.
This book attempts to consider the 'Irishness' of 'Irish popular music'. Such an analysis encompasses many complex issues concerning national identity, globalization, and cultural nationalism.
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Rating: - Academic yet accessible critical history: later 20c folk, rock, dance, pop
Mark J Prendergast's pioneering "Isle of Noises" (St Martin's US, 1988) brought Irish rock, by anecdotes, interviews, summaries of bands and albums and key songs, its first extended presentation in print. Now, in a book also titled with a variation on "noise," cultural and literary critic Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores U) brings his postmodern application of Jacques Attali's 70s-era "Noise: the political economy of music" to dismantle the leftist, Adorno-founded, snobbish dismissals of rock. ... Read More
