Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland

Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland offers new insights into contemporary Irish music. In twelve interviews with composers living in Ireland or of Irish descent aged between 26 and 80, the book sheds light on the compositional and stylistic diversity of Irish music. In the introduction, Benjamin Dwyer provides an overview of the history of Irish music from 1700 to the present day and examines how historical and socio-political factors such as English colonial rule, Irish nationalism, religious and state censorship and globalization have shaped the course of Irish music.

The interviews address central themes of Irish music research: the relationship between European and ethnic music traditions, styles and practices, the question of "Irish" identity, the social role of music, political aspects such as feminism and the reception of contemporary music in Irish and international media.
Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland thus opens up a hitherto little-researched field of European culture - contemporary music from Ireland.

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