Gerry Smyth

Music and Irish Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Celtic Tiger Blues

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth focusing on the ways in which music engages with various aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the identities it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music, the second as a consequence of Ireland's fall from economic grace after the demise of the 'Celtic Tiger', and the ensuing crisis of national identity. The book will be of seminal importance to all interested in popular music, cultural studies and the wider fate of Ireland in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317092438
• Artikelnr.: 46916938

Autorenporträt

Originally from Dublin, Gerry Smyth is Professor of Irish Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, and has published widely on various aspects of Irish literature and music. His books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Irish Critical Imagination (2001), Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music (2005) and most recently The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels (2015). Smyth is also an actor and musician: he has written, produced and performed a number of Irish-themed plays and albums including The Brother (2011), James Joyce's Chamber Music (2012), Will the Real Flann O'Brien ...? (2013) and Nora and Jim (2015). He is the Principal Co-ordinator of an international research network entitled Marginal Irish Modernisms, and is currently working on two projects: a critical study of Lord Dunsany, and a monograph on music in the life and literature of James Joyce.

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CONTENTS
Introduction: Reflections on Music and Irish Identity
Prolegomena: A Musical Day
1 Nationalism and Gender in the Music of Augusta Holmès: Notes from an
Unwritten Biography
2 'I Have Left My Book': Setting Joyce's Chamber Music Lyrics to Music
3 Thinking in Circles: Music and Cyclical Form in Joyce's Chamber Music
4 The Representation of Dublin in Story and Song
5 Musical Stereotyping and Irish Identity: The Case of the Pogues
6 'The Orchestra of Memory': Music, Sound and Silence in Dermot Healy's A
Goat's Song
7 'Join Us': Musical Style and Identity in Bernard MacLaverty 'My Dear
Palestrina'
8 Singing the Fisherman's Blues: Mike Scott and the Grain of the Irish
Voice
9 'About Nothing, About Everything': Listening in / to Tim Robinson
10 Celtic Tiger Blues