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Music and Irish Identity - Celtic Tiger Blues (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,764
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Music and Irish Identity - Celtic Tiger Blues (Hardcover): Gerry Smyth

Music and Irish Identity - Celtic Tiger Blues (Hardcover)

Gerry Smyth

Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

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Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen, for example, with digital platforms such as YouTube, Spotify and iTunes. A second factor has been Ireland's spectacular fall from economic grace after the demise of the "Celtic Tiger", and the ensuing crisis of national identity. Smyth argues that if, as the stereotypical association would have it, the Irish have always been a musical race, then that association needs re-examination in the light of developments in relation to both cultural practice and political identity. This book contributes to that process through a series of related case studies that are both scholarly and accessible. Some of the principal ideas broached in the text include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies; the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology; the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects; and the impact of economic austerity on musical negotiations of Irish identity. The book will be of seminal importance to all those interested in popular music, cultural studies and the wider fate of Ireland in the twenty-first century.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Release date: October 2016
First published: 2017
Authors: Gerry Smyth
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 978-1-4724-4272-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
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LSN: 1-4724-4272-5
Barcode: 9781472442727

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