Rock and popular music in Ireland before and after U2 / Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaughlin, Noel.

Contributor:

McLoone, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--Ireland--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Popular music--Ireland--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Rock musicians--Ireland--History--20th century.

Rock musicians.

History.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2012.

Summary:

This volume on popular music in Ireland examines the period from 1963 to the present and explores the development of indigenous rock music bisected by the critical influence of Ireland's most famous rock export, U2. The work covers several musical genres and the influence of traditional culture on music creation, and bands discussed include Horselips, Rory Gallagher, Van Morison, Sinéad O'Connor, and modern Irish electronica and dance music Djs. The work includes numerous black and white photographs. McLaughlin is a professor of film and television studies at Northumbria University, and McLoone is a professor of media studies at the University of Ulster. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part 1 Before... 13

1 The Emergence of Irish Popular Music 15

2 The Beat Groups: A Tale of Two Cities 43

3 Folk-Rock-Trad Hybrids 59

4 Irish Rock Exiles 81

5 Waking Up the Banana Republic 119

Part 2 U2 141

6 U2: Irishness and Identity 143

7 U2: Discourse and Performance 163

8 U2 after 'U2' 187

Part 3 ...After 229

9 Crazy Diaspora: Sinéad O'Connor 231

10 Roads Not Taken? Gregory Gray 253

11 Non-Stop Ecstatic Irish Dancing: Rave and its Legacies 277

12 Cabaret Ireland 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-338) and index.

ISBN:

9780716530763

0716530767

0716530775

9780716530770

OCLC:

766317159