ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|75 pages
Music Industries and Historiographies
chapter 4|13 pages
Raging Mother Ireland
part 2|75 pages
Roots and Routes
chapter 8|11 pages
The Politics of Sound
chapter 10|12 pages
Popular Music as a Weapon
chapter 11|12 pages
“… Practically Rock Stars Now”
part 3|68 pages
Scenes and Networks
chapter 13|12 pages
Assembling the Underground
part |10 pages
Coda
part |16 pages
Afterword
