How Belfast Got the Blues
How Belfast Got the Blues Was the first white European blues singer an Irish woman? Did the state suppress the work of a key countercultural director because his film was shot in Belfast in 1965?This…
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How Belfast Got the Blues
Was the first white European blues singer an Irish woman? Did the state suppress the work of a key countercultural director because his film was shot in Belfast in 1965?This book provides the answers in an engaging and dynamic reconsideration of Belfast's long-ignored contributions to the popular music and cultural politics of the 1960s. What links The Rolling Stones to the birth of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement?
But How Belfast Got the Blues offers a corrective, reconsidering the period before 1969 and arguing that popular music in Northern Ireland was central to the politics In an expansive socio-cultural history, Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff explore how popular music engaged with and influenced the global cultural and political currents of the decade.The popular history of Northern Ireland has been overshadowed by the violence of the Troubles.