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See you at the hall : Boston's golden era of Irish music and dance
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See you at the hall : Boston's golden era of Irish music and dance / Susan Gedutis ; with a foreword by Mick Moloney.
ISBN
1555536107 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index.
Includes discography.
Contents
From shanties to three-deckers : Boston as an Irish destination
The 1920s : my father's band
The 1930s : If you're Irish, never mind the parlor, come into the kitchen!
Strike up the band (again)
If we only had old Ireland over here : dance, music, and Irish identity in the postwar dance halls
There's a sweetheart waiting for you : women and romance
The Kings of Dudley Street : Johnny Powell and his band
The musician crowd : a community of differences
At my father's knee : learning Irish music
Copley Records : Boston's Irish label
The hucklebuck and blue suede shoes : showbands
The exodus
And the band played on.
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