Recommend a book or books on Irish music? (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

Hiya could anyone (or everyone) recommend a book or books about Irish music, or more specifically music in Ireland? I'm ideally looking for a book that would cover as many genres as possible but good books on specific genres in Ireland would be great too.
Thanks .|..|.

 

[therealjohnny]

Might be of some interest

"a patchwork history of Irish music interwoven of many fine tapestries."o)

Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History


It's in Chapters and it's cheap

 

[Charlie Bucket]

Might be of some interest

"a patchwork history of Irish music interwoven of many fine tapestries."o)

Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History


It's in Chapters and it's cheap

its a bit gammily (is that even a word?) written tho...

i'd say this is insightful, subjective and not at all about just one band...

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I read that Beautiful Day book. It's ok. It takes a song from every year of the forty and uses it as a starting point to talk about that year. It's not very in depth and I had never heard of a huge amount of the bands in it.

 

[therealjohnny]

If it's not here it's not Irish...or music...

 

[Scientician 0.8]

If it's not here it's not Irish...or music...

Thanks!
I might have to write the very byouk myself.

 

[Psychotic no 2]

GREEN BEAT is a cool book on underground Irish music in the era of the showbands. Written by a guy called Darragh O'Halloran

http://www.irishshowbands.net/review_greenbeat.htm

 

[Beanstalk]

Haven't read it but...

http://www.thumped.com/hope/

 

[Pantone247]

Might be of some interest

"a patchwork history of Irish music interwoven of many fine tapestries."o)

Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History


It's in Chapters and it's cheap

Colin (what co wrote that book) Harper's 'Dazzling Stranger' was great, a biog of Bert Jansch but covered the whole folk revival movement, dabbles a bit in the Irish in England

That Beatuiful Day book is daycent too, bar the cover, goes from the show bands right up to present day, interesting enough, don't let the cover put you off

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...bookstore&tag=thumpedcom-20?tag=thumpedcom-20

I leafed through this a bit, good but very of its time (1992), lots of Golden Horde and The Pale and many more Where Are They Nows

There is another one I can picture in me head, but can't think of... uh...

 

[Pantone247]

GREEN BEAT is a cool book on underground Irish music in the era of the showbands. Written by a guy called Darragh O'Halloran

http://www.irishshowbands.net/review_greenbeat.htm

that's the one!

and It Makes You Want To Spit, a very nicely put together history of Punk in Northern Ireland, put together by a few dudes, amazing archieve of photographs in it, very entertaining

http://www.myspace.com/itmakesyouwanttospit

 

[therealjohnny]

Essential

 

[Pantone247]

 

[therealjohnny]

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[nlgbbbblth]

Might be of some interest

"a patchwork history of Irish music interwoven of many fine tapestries."o)

Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History


It's in Chapters and it's cheap

That's a great read.

 

[therealjohnny]

Unputdownable

Riveting

Jesus Wept

 

[clonan attack]

Leagues one on Planxty is deadly, always puts me in the mood for goin out on the lash though so beware.

I learnt so much about the Irish trad scene from that book even though what they were playing wasn't strictly traditional

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I have the Planxty one, I just haven't read it yet.
I'm doing research into music in Ireland and want as much background as possible so I might well get all the other books suggested. Thanks for the help everyone and keep the suggestions coming if there are other books out there.

 

[smallbrownbear]

GREEN BEAT is a cool book on underground Irish music in the era of the showbands. Written by a guy called Darragh O'Halloran

is 'underground' how O'Halloran defines it? i haven't read the buke. but i knbows it weren't 'underground' be gob

it was beat, and R'n'B mainly in the early sixites with blues, rock and folk [of the woody guthrie and ewan mccoll variety rather than the beardy balladeering baneen gansy wearing ribil rousin variety] in the later sixties

it's mythola that all yer parents were 'dancing at the cross roads' or being 'sent home sweatin' in this country; and jayz not all mammies and daddies met at the Galtymore in London either while we're at it

it wasn't 'underground', it was in 'hops' [at tennis clubs and local halls] and 'coffee clubs', and pubs across the land [...granted maybe concentrated in the bigger cities] played by irish lads. and it wasn't just the focus of a 'turned on' few.

we're not the new riders of the purple sage. nor were all our forbearers dressed in polyester

 

[Grenouille]

Hmmmm...I guess there's room out there for an "under the radar" book on Irish music so...!ninjaaaa