The Isle is full of noises: music in contemporary Ireland

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Notes

Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, translated by Brian Massumi (1977; Manchester University Press, 1985), p. 1. Subsequent page references will appear in parentheses in the main text.

For representative examples see Ruth H. Bauerle (ed.), Picking up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text (University of Illinois Press, 1993), and Jack W. Weaver, Joyce's Music and Noise: Theme and Variation in His Writings (University Press of Florida, 1998).

See Alex Aronson, Music and the Novel: A Study in Twentieth‐century Fiction (Rowman & Littlefield, 1980).

On Rousseau's contradictory formulation of the relations between thought, speech, music and writing see Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1974; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. 95ff.

Gerry Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature (Pluto Press, 1998), pp. 39–50.

Thérèse Smith, ‘The Fragmentation of Irish Musical Thought and the Marginalisation of Traditional Music’, Studies vol. 89, no. 354 (2000), p. 149.

Giraldus Cambrensis, History and Topography of Ireland, ed. and trans. John J. O'Meara (Penguin, 1982), p. 103.

Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism, pp. 54–64.

Smith, ‘The Fragmentation of Irish Musical Thought, pp. 153–154; see also Harry White, The Keeper’s Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland, 1770–1970 (Cork University Press, 1998), pp. 36–52.

Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone, ‘Hybridity and National Musics: The Case of Irish Rock Music’, Popular Music vol. 19, no. 2 (May 2000), pp. 181–182.