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Music and Irish Identity - Celtic Tiger Blues (Hardcover)
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Music and Irish Identity - Celtic Tiger Blues (Hardcover)
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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