Popular Music and Popular Culture

A major collection of essays on the critically acclaimed Manchester band Joy Division will be launched on Thursday January 17th at the Kasbah Club, Dolans at 8pm.
Eoin Devereux’s 12,000 word essay on The Cranberries’ early days will be published on October 19 2018 ‘Waltzing Back:
Songs of Social Protest Published
Dr Aileen Dillane, Dr Martin J. Power, Professor Eoin Devereux and Dr Amanda Haynes have just published a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally.
Joy Division Symposium
Noel Hogan, The Cranberries, Dr Martin Power, Professor Eoin Devereux, Assistant Dean, Research, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick and Dr Aileen Dillane...

Songs of Social Protest Published
Joy Division Symposium

About

The Popular Music and Popular Culture research cluster engages with all facets of popular culture, from sonic and visual texts and their artists/creators/performers in their manifold performance contexts, to questions that arise around technological mediations in relation to the production, (re)circulation and reception of all things popular.

We draw on a diverse array of theoretical perspectives, from critical and cultural theory to sociological, anthropological and ethnomusicological understandings of popular expressions and their meaning(s).

We have a particular interest in the social organization of musical and cultural lives across the globe. The cluster does not privilege British/American/Western cultural expression, though this currently accounts for much of its research output to date.