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Music and Irish identity : Celtic tiger blues / Gerry Smyth.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML287 .S69 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smyth, Gerry, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Ashgate popular and folk music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Ireland--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Music--Social aspects--Ireland--History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 178 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 Nationalism and gender in the music of Augusta Holmes: Notes from an unwritten biography 12
- 2 'I have left my book': Setting Joyce's Chamber Music lyrics to music 28
- 3 Thinking in circles: Music and cyclical form in Joyce's Chamber Music 45
- 4 The representation of Dublin in story and song 62
- 5 Musical stereotyping and Irish identity: The case of the Pogues 74
- 6 'The orchestra of memory': Music, sound and silence in Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song 89
- 7 'Join us': Musical style and identity in Bernard MacLaverty's 'My Dear Palestrina' 101
- 8 Singing the fisherman's blues: Mike Scott and the grain of the Irish voice 117
- 9 'About nothing, about everything': Listening in / to Tim Robinson 133
- 10 Celtic Tiger blues: Sing when you're winning 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472442727
- 1472442725
- OCLC:
- 945582520
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