Beautiful Day introduces representative songs from 1964 to the
present by a range of Irish popular musicians. The book combines
written text with photographs to produce an attractive volume that
is evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has
widespread, cross-demographic appeal. Music has played an important
role throughout the island of Ireland since ancient times, and it
continues to represent one of the principal cultural avenues for
the expression and exploration of contemporary Irish identities.
Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock tells the story of modern
Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the
island during a period of rapid, decisive change. The volume is
made up of an introductory essay (4,000 words) followed by short
essays (ca. 1,200 words) on forty-one songs (one from each year
between 1964 and 2004) interspersed with photographic images
relating to individual performers, songs and / or cultural context.
This book will place representative material by a variety of
artists - including U2, Enya, The Corrs, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison,
and Sinead O'Connor - in their musical, cultural and historical
contexts, while also introducing a range of less well known, but no
less interesting, Irish popular musicians from the 1960s down to
the present. Although the style is accessible, the research is
thorough, and is intended to challenge many received ideas relating
to the development of Ireland during this key stage of its
political and cultural history. The overall intention is to combine
written text with photographs to produce an attractive book that is
evocative, informative, and controversial, and that has widespread,
cross-demographic appeal.
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