The Liverpool sounds project
Oral history research at the IPM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i1.39Keywords:
country music in Britain, dance bands, dance halls, diasporic Irish music, oral historyAbstract
Between 1991 and 1994, researchers at the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool carried out a research project on popular music in twentieth-century Liverpool. This article describes the principal methodologies employed, notably oral history interviews, and introduces excerpts from the published results of the research. These describe and analyse dance bands and dance halls in Liverpool, the country music scene and local Irish traditional music making.
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Leigh, S. 1981. ‘Merseybeat and Country’. Country Music Round Up (May): 16.
Leonard, M. 2005. ‘Performing Identities: Music and Dance in the Irish Communities of Coventry and Liverpool’. Social & Cultural Geography 6.4 (August): 515–29.
McManus, K. 1994a. Nashville of the North: Country Music in Liverpool. Liverpool: Institute of Popular Music.
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Nott, J. J. 2002. Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Published
2008-11-23
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How to Cite
Laing, D. (2008). The Liverpool sounds project: Oral history research at the IPM. Popular Music History, 3(1), 39-64. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i1.39
