Are You Dancing? : Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland
Miller, Rebecca S.2025
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Rebecca S. Miller tells the story of how these working-class bands brought new sounds and choreographies to the Irish and Northern Irish pop landscape. Both as a response to and an agent in Ireland's changing economic landscape, showbands quickly grew into a hugely lucrative commercial industry. At the same time, they nudged open doors for Irish women to take to the stage as pop stars, rewarded a generation of entrepreneurs, and created the template for Ireland's popular music industry. Miller draws upon interviews with more than 80 musicians, agents, managers, fans, and clergy, to reveal the vast interplay of social, economic, and cultural changes that ensued with the Irish showband era.
Príomhtheideal:
Are You Dancing? : Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland / Rebecca S. Miller.
Údar:
Miller, Rebecca S., author
Inphrionta:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2025.
Leathanaigh in ord:
272 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23cm + pbk
Teideal sraithe:
Nótaí:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Lucht:
Specialized.
Contents:
Introduction: Remembering the Showbands, Documenting Popular Music"The Archbishop's Quadrille": The Church, The State, Dance Bands, and Ceilis, 1925 to 1955Origins: "The Band That Does the Show""Traveling Jukeboxes": Imitation, Translation, and Irishness"Blarney Sounds": Making and Marketing the Showband IndustryBuilders, Promoters, Managers, and Priests: Profiles of Showband Entrepreneurs"Aching the Notes" and Challenging the Industry: Negotiating Gender on the Showband StageHucklebucking Across the Waters: Irish Showbands in DiasporaThe End of the Showband Era.
ISBN:
9780253072368 (pbk)
Rangúchán Dewey:
781.6409415306.09415306.094306.0941781.640785.067781.6409
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
BRN:
3596323