1st Edition
Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music
Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures, styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies, Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth, one of the most published authors on Irish popular music.
Introduction: Popular Music in Ireland: Mapping the Field
ÁINE MANGAOANG, JOHN O’FLYNN AND LONÁN Ó BRIAIN
Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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
Biography
Áine Mangaoang is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo.
John O'Flynn is Associate Professor of Music at Dublin City University.
Lonán Ó Briain is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham.
"There can be little doubt that Ireland is an enduring and prolific presence in the world of popular music. The editors of this book are to be congratulated on drawing together a quality cast of contributors, whose expertise in various aspects of Irish popular music serves to produce a rich and compelling exploration of the significance and legacy of Irish popular music artists in both local and global contexts."
— Andy Bennett (Griffith University), author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place
"Made in Ireland is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of popular music (broadly understood) in Ireland currently available. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines and offer a number of illuminating perspectives that should make this book of interest to readers in popular music studies more broadly."
— Timothy D. Taylor (UCLA), author of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets
"This unique volume addresses a number of lacunae in Irish Music Studies in a way that broadens and deepens the field immeasurably. Extending far beyond the jigs and reels of pub sessions or performances at rural song circles, Made in Ireland is both urgent and immediate in its examination of Ireland’s direct engagement with rock, hip hop, country, punk, and other popular genres. Underlying these sounds is a pulse of identity, rebellion, and connection to place and scene that no other current book explores."
— Sean Williams (Evergreen State College), author of Focus: Irish Traditional Music
"Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music is a very welcome addition to the growing body of criticism now available on popular music and Ireland. ... For any student (or scholar) interested in the general topic of popular music and Ireland it would be difficult to find a better survey or starting point for further exploration. ... As a reader for undergraduate or graduate studies, I cannot recommend it highly enough."
— Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (National University of Ireland), Ethnomusicology Ireland
"Overall, I would like to highly recommend Made in Ireland for its fresh and valuable insights into the development of Irish popular music over the past eighty years. Its content will appeal particularly to scholars of music, cultural studies and history and has the potential to open up new discussions, approaches and areas of research in Irish musicology. However, the book’s accessible style also makes it suitable for anybody with a general interest in Irish popular music. The editors are to be commended for producing an outstanding volume that clearly demonstrates that popular music is a fundamental part of Irish cultural heritage and a key resource for the articulation of being Irish in the modern world."
— Lauren Alex O'Hagan (University of Sheffield), Irish Studies Review
