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In October 2020 Routledge published, Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music, this is part of Routledge’s global popular music series which, as they put it, is ‘devoted to popular music largely unknown to Anglo-American readers’. !is collection of essays, through a wide range of historical and critical vantage points, explores popular music on the island of Ireland. Made in Ireland is edited by Áine Mangowang, John O’Flynn and Lonán Ó Briain and in this episode Lines on Music speaks to Áine and John about the collection and about the process of putting it together. We also discuss several of the chapters, we speak about Áine and John’s contributions to the collection and about some possible future trajectories of research on Irish popular music. !is episode is part one of two. In the following episode we speak to Tríona Ní Shíocháin about her contribu-tion to the collection, “!e Politics of Sound: Modernity and Post-Colonial Identity in Irish-Language Popular Song”, so stay tuned for that.
Episode 4: Street Music
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Busking… most musicians do it at some stage or other, for some it is even their primary income. From BB King, to Tracy Chapman, to Ed Sheeran many household names in the world of popular music have cut their teeth busking. Playing on the street provides musicians with a unique performance environment, which requires particular strategies to draw and hold an audience… not everyone can do it.
In this episode, ‘Street Music’, we speak to Dr Elizabeth Bennett about her co-authored report ‘From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the UK’, where we dig down into the cultural history of street entertainment and busking. We also speak to Dr Diana Omigie and Heather Thuringer about their research paper ‘The Busking Experiment: A Field Study Measuring Behavioural Responses to Street Music Performances’ to find out what scientific methods and research approaches around behavioural analysis can tell us about what makes a successful busker.
The episode begins and ends with the music of Toulouse ensemble Les Fanfleurs Brass Band. You can find our more about the band at their website here http://www.lesfanflures.fr/welcome/fr
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