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Music in Irish cultural history / Gerry Smyth.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3654.1 .M87 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smyth, Gerry, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock music--Ireland--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Folk music--Ireland--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Ireland.
- Popular music--Irish influences.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction: In search of Irish music
- Listening to the future : music and Irish studies
- Betrayal as theme and influence in Thomas Moore's 'On Music'
- Music in James Joyce's 'The Dead' : sources contexts, meanings
- Paddy sad and Paddy mad : music and condition Irishness
- Bringing it all back home? The dynamics of local music-making in the The Commitments
- Celtic music : from the Margins to the Centre (and back again?)
- Listening to the novel : the role and representation of traditional music in contemporary Irish fiction
- No country for young women : Celtic music, dissent and the Irish female body
- 'The same sound but with a different meaning' : Music, politics and identity in Bernard Mac Laverty's Grace Notes
- 'Sing your melody, I'll sing along' : Mimetic and diegetic uses of music in Once.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-189) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780716529842
- 071652984X
- 9780716529859
- 0716529858
- OCLC:
- 298782249
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