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[Commlist] New Book: How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s

Fri Dec 11 15:47:10 GMT 2020






Intellect is pleased to announce that /*How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s* <https://www.intellectbooks.com/how-belfast-got-the-blues>/, by Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff, is now available in ebook and paperback. The title will soon be available in the US.

Was the first white European blues singer an Irish woman? What links The Rolling Stones to the birth of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement? 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. In an expansive sociocultural 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. /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 of the time, in ways not previously understood or explored. By intertwining politics, culture, and unexplored key personalities, the authors reexamine this  radical decade and the complex but essential relationship between music and identity in a place where it could mean the difference between life and death.
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*_Table of Contents
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*Introduction:* Belfast at a Crossroads

*Chapter 1: *1964

*Chapter 2:* The Political Power of a Film That Might Have Been

*Chapter 3: *‘We Gotta Get into This Place’

*Chapter 4:* ‘Them Are Coming!’

*Chapter 5:* 'A' Story of Them

*Chapter 6:* Irish Lady Sings the Blues

*Chapter 7:* 1966: The Summer of Love?

*Chapter 8:* Crossroads: Times Have Surely Changed

*References*
*Index*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/how-belfast-got-the-blues <https://www.intellectbooks.com/how-belfast-got-the-blues>



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