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.
- Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (National University of Ireland), Ethnomusicology Ireland
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.
- Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (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
