A History of Irish Music, Paperback

Reducere. A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines et...

Reducere. Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble...

Reducere. Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled th...

"A companion to be cherished, " "judicious and authoritative, " "informative and entertaining, " "an invaluable work of reference"--these are just ...

Reducere. Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish ...

Reducere. This is the fascinating story of music. How it started with a song and became one of our most beloved arts.Learn how early composers added modal rh...

Reducere. DescriptionThe bestselling novel, The Memory of Music One Irish family - One hundred turbulent years: 1916 to 2016 Betty O'Fogarty is proud and cle...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick FalkowskiHistory of Buffalo Music & Entertainment from the 1830s to the early 1980s. Covering Canal Street & Christy's...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the dawn of rock 'n' roll, the accordion ranked among North America's most popular instruments. Arriving in the arms of immigrant...

Reducere. Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exp...

Reducere. Best known as the cofounder of the Irish band The Pogues, Shane MacGowan has become a cult figure on the alternative-music scene. His achingly beau...

Reducere. James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th cen...

Reducere. At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive c...

James Connolly was the leader of the Irish Citizen Army. Growing up in terrible poverty in Scotland, he made the fight for the rights of workers hi...

Reducere. These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and W...

Reducere. "I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die."--John LydonPunk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. I...

Reducere. DescriptionWho was the Mysterious 355? Culper Ring members such as Robert Townsend and Hercules Mulligan are well known for the part they played in...

Reducere. Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. De...

DescriptionA deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country e...

Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated...

Bram Stoker's gothic horror masterpiece pits good against evil and life against death, all under the thrall of the original vampire.... "Listen to ...