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Title: Last Night's Fun : A Book About Irish Traditional Music by Ciaran Carson ISBN: 0-86547-531-8 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 17 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The night before the morning after
Comment: Carson takes the reader on a journey deep into the very heart of Irish Music - the musician at his most timelessness. Don't pick this up expecting a scholarly approach to Irish music. This is an amazing insight into the music and the soul of the music as performed by an Irish musician. Carson even shows the little quirks of daily living that help to give birth to such a personable music. I love Irish music, but am a jazz pianist by musical trade. I highly recommend this to any and all musicians who are searching for their soul in music, especially those in jazz. It is a very moving and thought provoking work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delvings of the deep diddly diddly
Comment: Belfast writer, fluter, raconteur and unreliable witness takes us into the subterranean world of craic agus chaos as he attempts to surf the web of the perfect session experience. Part nostalgic interrogtation of his own relationship with traditional music, part exploration of the Ulster breakfast: this book is a close as it gets to the cameraderie and catharsis of an all night music bash. A work of astute fiction that might never be true but is always believable.
At the end we are left wondering was this one large joke or simply a witty Northern oxymoron? A book to be revisited when the frost keeps us away from session, pub or our inner fiddler.
Excellent is too narrow a word to describe the sweep of the narrative.
Sean Laffey Irish Music Magazine Dublin
Rating: 5
Summary: An experience not to be missed
Comment: I've been a Celtic music fan for many years, long before it began to turn up on the New Age charts. While I don't mean to knock that genre (which has given some splendid traditional musicians -- e.g., the O'Domhnaills of Nightnoise and Alasdair Fraser of Skyedance -- the wider listenership they deserve), traditional Celtic music is an altogether grittier, funkier breed.
Ciaran Carson brings a poet's sensibility to the performer's-eye perspective of Irish music, from last night's fun to the next morning's rude awakening. Irish music isn't simply the tunes themselves; it's the old-timers who performed them, the instruments they played, the pints of Guinness, the choking smoke in the bar and the pouring rain outside, and Carson conveys the whole experience admirably. It's almost as good as being there.
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Title: Star Factory, The by Ciaran Carson ISBN: 1559704659 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music (The Pocket History Series) by Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Gearoid C'Hallmurain ISBN: 0862785553 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Field Guide to the Irish Music Session: A Guide to Enjoying Irish Traditional Music in Its Natural Habitat by Barry Foy, Rob Adams ISBN: 1568331940 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fishing for Amber: A Long Story by Ciaran Carson ISBN: 1862073023 Publisher: Granta Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Irish Music by Geoff Wallis, Sue Wilson, Rough Guides ISBN: 1858286425 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: 31 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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