Gerry Smyth

Noisy Island: A Critical History of Irish Rock Music

Buch

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. 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-85918-387-8
EAN: 9781859183878
Produktnummer: 1491455
Verlag: Cork Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 182 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 454 g
Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor

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).