joanna braniff
Why Belfast Got the Blues
we never could have predicted Belfast’s centrality to the broader pop narrative of the decade
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Noel McLaughlin
- Nov 24, 2020
- 4 min
Dave Struck A Chord
Dave Laing you are greatly missed. If there is a God, I hope you enjoy the fact that this book is dedicated to your memory and influence.
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Noel McLaughlin
- Nov 10, 2020
- 5 min
Youthful Adventures in Sound
The sheer excitement ushered in by the democratisation and affordability of the tape recorder cannot, and should not, be under-estimated
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Noel McLaughlin
- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
Playing It Safe?
Neither Trump or Biden are conspicuously deploying popular music’s (now long-standing) role as a persuader
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Noel McLaughlin
- Nov 2, 2020
- 5 min
Unity in Diversity
Irish popular music historiography has come a long way from ‘showbands versus beat groups’
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joanna braniff
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Writing is on the Wall
the US is perched on a narrow precipice terrifyingly similar to that of Northern Ireland in the closing years of the 1960s.
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Noel McLaughlin
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
Women of the Ghetto
for all of these women calling out a normal society for being anything but was a risky strategy
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joanna braniff
- Sep 25, 2020
- 5 min
How Belfast Got the Blues - A note on style, form and ambition
This book has been written with the non-academic reader very much in mind.
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joanna braniff
- Sep 17, 2020
- 3 min
I Predict A Riot
This was exactly the violent theatre of primal hedonism the youth of Belfast craved
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joanna braniff
- Sep 11, 2020
- 8 min
Politics of the aesthetic - the extraordinary Peter Whitehead
... the film offers some of the most novel and forward looking images of popular music in performance.
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joanna braniff
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Maps as propaganda
Maps are the ultimate visualisation of the ways we place ourselves in time and space.
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joanna braniff
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
How we researched How Belfast Got the Blues
The most important aspect in this mix was, undoubtedly, original archival research and the prioritisation of analysis of public record.
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