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

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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