Music and Irish Identity: Celtic Tiger Blues

by Gerry Smyth

Book Overview

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen, for example,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472442725
• ISBN13: 9781472442727
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"