The Song Goes On

From the Clancys to Amble: A history of Irish Folk Music. The story of a changing Ireland: emigration and homecoming, rural roads and growing cities, politics and identity.

von Brendan Barry

594 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the Clancys to Amble: Seventy Years of Irish Folk Music: More than a history of Irish Folk Music. It is the story of a changing Ireland: emigration and homecoming, pubs and folk clubs, rural roads and growing cities, politics and identity, old languages and new technology.From Aran sweaters and Dublin ballad sessions to festival fields filled with a new generation of singers, the story of Irish folk music is a story of constant reinvention.Above all, it is the story of how music survives.In the late 1950s and early 1960s, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem carried the songs of Ireland onto the stages of America and helped ignite a folk revival that would transform Irish music forever.The Dubliners gave the old ballads a rougher, louder voice. Planxty introduced a revolutionary new sound. The Bothy Band set traditional music alight, while Horslips and Moving Hearts plugged the tradition into rock. Paul Brady reinvented the possibilities of the solo folk singer, and Christy Moore became one of the great carriers of the Irish song.Then came The Fureys, De Dannan, Clannad, Mary Black, Dolores Keane, The Pogues, The Waterboys, The Saw Doctors and a generation of singers and songwriters who proved that folk music could never be confined to the past.But the story did not end there.In the twenty-first century, artists including Damien Dempsey, Lisa O'Neill, Lankum and Ye Vagabonds began finding new possibilities in old songs, while The Mary Wallopers brought the raucous energy of the ballad session to a young audience. The extraordinary resurgence of The Wolfe Tones showed how songs could skip generations and return, while Kingfishr and Amble demonstrated that a new generation was ready not only to rediscover the tradition-but to add its own songs to it.The singers change.Ireland changes.And still the song goes on.The Song Goes On: From the Clancys to Amble is available in paperback and ebook, and is included with Kindle Unlimited.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175928182
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published