Made in Ireland

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Áine Mangaoang, John O’Flynn and Lonán Ó Briain


October 2020 | Routledge

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Introduction

Popular Music in Ireland: Mapping the Field

ÁINE MANGAOANG, JOHN O’FLYNN and LONÁN Ó BRIAIN


 

Part I: Music Industries and Historiographies

1. A History of Irish Record Labels from the 1920s to 2019

MICHAEL MARY MURPHY

2. Broadcasting Rock: The Fanning Sessions as a Gateway to New Music

HELEN GUBBINS and LONÁN Ó BRIAIN

3. Don’t Believe A Word? Memoirs of Irish Rock Musicians

LAURA WATSON

4. Raging Mother Ireland: Faith, Fury and Feminism in the Body, Voice and Songs of Sinéad O’Connor

AILEEN DILLANE

5. “Missing From the Record”: Zrazy and Women’s Music in Ireland

ANN-MARIE HANLON

6. “Alternative Ulster”: The First Wave of Punk in Northern Ireland (1976-1983)

TIMOTHY A. HERON


 

Part II: Roots and Routes

7. Irish Lady Sings the Blues: History, Identity and Ottilie Patterson

NOEL McLAUGHLIN and JOANNA BRANIFF

8. The Politics of Sound: Modernity and Post-Colonial Identity in Irish-language Popular Song

TRÍONA NÍ SHÍOCHÁIN

9. Communal Voices: The Songs of Tom a’ tSeoighe and Ciarán Ó Fátharta

SÍLE DENVIR

10. Popular Music as a Weapon: Irish Rebel Songs and the Onset of the Northern Ireland Troubles

STEPHEN R. MILLAR

11. “…Practically Rock Stars Now”: Changing Relations Between Traditional and Popular Music in a Post-Revival Tradition

ADRIAN SCAHILL

12. “Other voices” in Media Representations of Irish popular music

JOHN O’FLYNN


 

Part III: Scenes and Networks

13. Assembling the Underground: Scale, Value and Visibility in Dublin’s DIY Music Scene

JAIME JONES

14. Parochial Capital and the Cork Music Scene

EILEEN HOGAN

15. Death of a Local Scene? Music in Dublin in the Digital Age

CAROLINE ANN O’SULLIVAN

16. Fit for Consumption?: Fanzines and Fan Communication in Irish DIY Music Scenes

CIARÁN RYAN

17. Hip Hop Interpellation: Rethinking Autochthony and Appropriation in Irish Rap

J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON


 

Coda

18. Making Spaces, Saving Places: Modern Irish Popular Music and the Green Turn

GERRY SMYTH


 

Afterword

19. Songs of Love: A Conversation with Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy)

ÁINE MANGAOANG