Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017

Contents

• Introduction: Music, the moving image, and Ireland
• Conceiving the field
• A national cinema?
• Aims and methods
• Representing Ireland
• Musical tropes and their alternatives: a book of three parts
• Musical and ideological readings
• Part 1: Irish Themes on Screen and in Sound
• Chapter 1: The first half-century: From silent newsreel to narrative sound film
• The beginnings of Irish cinema
• Early Irish-themed sound film
• Max Steiner and Irish-themed film
• British and Irish film: the mid-to-late 1930s
• Irish-themed British film music: William Alwyn
• The luck of the Irish?
• Chapter 2: Harping on? The 1950s to the 1990s
• The early to mid-1950s
• Irish-produced and Irish-themed
• Fighters, writers and leprechauns
• Different directions in the 1970s
• Re-working sonic Irishness
• Chapter 3: Literature-to-film adaptations and music
• O'Casey and Synge
• Joyce, music and film
• New generations of writers
• Elmer Bernstein and adapted Irish screenplays
• End-of-century adaptations
• Part 2: Perception and Production from Within
• Chapter 4: Sounding nation and culture on screen
• Early perspectives on the independence struggle
• Anthropology and ideology
• Nation building
• Tourism, heritage and the natural world
• Commemoration
• Documenting tradition in a modern age
• Chapter 5: Soundtracks to Ireland's troubles: dramas and documentaries
• The long 19th century on TV
• The Northern Ireland Troubles in documentary film
• The mid-1990s: A new aesthetic for Troubles documentaries?
• Critical perspectives on the Republic: the 1960s
• Continuing themes of unemployment, emigration and diaspora
• Abuse, abjection and marginalization
• Millennial perspectives on Irish history
• Chapter 6: Irish Composers and 20th-century film and TV
• Mid-20th century composers
• Combining tradition and modernity?
• Experimental scoring: Brian Boydell
• Composing for TV: A.J. Potter
• From newsreel to feature film: Gerard Victory
• The late 20th century: Seoirse Bodley, John Buckley and Roger Doyle
• Part 3: Cinematic and Musical Developments
• Chapter 7: Soundtracks for an emerging Irish cinema: Margins, borders, troubles
• On the margins: first wave Irish cinema
• Early narrative features on the Troubles
• Troubles films go mainstream
• South of the border: past troubles
• Chapter 8: A plurality of genres
• Documenting music on screen
• Traditional and folk soundtracks
• Traditional music and orchestral scores: Micheal O Suilleabhain, Bill Whelan and Shaun Davey
• From stage to soundtrack: music hall, dance bands and jazz
• Popular music: composition and compilation
• The Irish music-film
• Chapter 9: 21st-century themes
• Soundtracks, places, spaces
• Crime drama
• Past traumas
• Looking back at the Troubles
• Outsiders
• Beyond Ireland
• Conclusion: Retrospectives and recent developments
• Music, the moving image and Ireland: the first 120 years
• 21st-century documentary features
• Retrospectives and (re)-composition
• Developments in screen music production
• Glossary of Musical Terms
• Selected Filmography
• Bibliography