Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

Contents

• Contents: Foreword, Gerry Smyth
• Introduction, John O'Flynn and Mark Fitzgerald. Part I Historical Perspectives: 'Whatever has a foreign tone / We like much better than our own': Irish music and Anglo-Irish identity in the eighteenth century, Barra Boydell
• Traditional music in the Irish revival, Martin Dowling
• 'A national school of music such as the world has never seen': re-appropriating the early twentieth century into a chronology of Irish composition, Edmund Hunt
• The 'Irish music' of Arnold Bax and E.J. Moeran, Fabian Gregor Huss
• Inventing identities: the case of Frederick May, Mark Fitzgerald
• Forging a Northern Irish identity: music broadcasting on BBC Northern Ireland, 1924-39, Ruth Stanley. Part II Recent and Contemporary Production: 'From inside my head': issues of identity in Northern Ireland through the music of Kevin O'Connell, Jennifer
• The honourable tradition of non-existence: issues of Irish identity in the music and writings of Raymond Deane, Adrian Smith
• Dancing at the crossroads remixed: Irish traditional musical identity in changing community contexts, Kari K. Veblen
• Morrissey's gothic Ireland, Isabella van Elferen
• Post-punk industrial cyber opera? The ambivalent and disruptive hybridity of early 1990s' U2, Noel McLaughlin. Part III Cultural Explorations: Gael or Gall? Musical identity in early 1970s Cape Clear Island, Therese Smith
• Positive vibrations: musical communities in African Dublin, Matteo Cullen
• Kalfou Danjere? Interpreting Irish-Celtic music, John O'Flynn
• Music in Ireland: youth cultures and youth identity, Eileen Hogan
• The invention of ethnicity: traditional music and the modulations of Irish culture, Harry White
• Select bibliography
• Index.