Dancing About Architecture : Postmodernism and Irish Popular Music

Stephen Ryan

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Abstract

Listening to Bono of U2 in a recent radio interview, I was struck by a comment he made. He was talking about contemporary and past musics, and how the past and the present are tied up with hopes and fears about the future. It was, he argued, a case of the difference between yesterdays tomorrow and todays tomorrow. Yesterday's tomorrow was about a confidence for the future, a belief that progress was more or less inevitable and, for music, that artistic creativity would continue to blossom and produce great works.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)Article 3
JournalIrish Communications Review
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • popular music
  • postmodernism
  • Ireland

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