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Ulster's marching bands form perhaps the most vibrant participatory
folk music tradition in contemporary Europe, and are one of the
most significant and visible elements of working-class loyalist
culture in the divided society of Northern Ireland. Their
significance springs largely from the central place they have
assumed in the lives of their members. This book presents an
ethnography of three County Antrim flute bands from the very
different genres of 'part-music', 'melody' and 'blood and thunder'.
The author explores the emotional rewards of communal music-making
and the way that identities are formed through the acquisition of
tastes, competences and skills within specific communal contexts,
paying particular attention to the impact of class position. These
issues are examined in the context of the competitions, concerts
and street parades that are central to the social lives of
thousands of band members and supporters in Northern Ireland.
In 1982, Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the
Falklands Islands - ownership of which had been disputed with Great
Britain for over a century - would put an end to years of political
wrangling. However Britain's response was to immediately dispatch a
task force to recover the islands by force if necessary. The
'conflict' which followed (a formal declaration of war was never
given) lasted ten weeks from Argentine invasion to British
liberation, the white heat of battle using 20th century technology
contrasting with bitter hand-to-hand bayonet fighting in
inhospitable conditions. This title features eyewitness accounts by
the participants of both sides and islanders that leave us in no
doubt as to the ferocity of the combat on land, sea and in the air.
Its comparison photography in colour of all the battlefields, the
crash sites of the aircraft shot down, the relics and the remains,
together with portraits of those who lost their lives and the
battlefield memorials, serve as a graphic testimony to their
endeavours, 25 years after the battle. "A Roll of Honour" lists the
casualties of both sides and, for the first time, the graves of all
the British fallen - both on the islands and the United Kingdom -
have been visited and photographed as a lasting record of all those
who made the supreme sacrifice I what is most probably Britain's
last colonial war.
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