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A Whole New Thing

Alice Echols

Alice Echols tells the forgotten story of the daring, cross-racial experimentation that happened across rock, funk and disco during the 1970s.

Don’t Upset the Rhythm

Matthew Jordan

When innovative music is seen as a moral threat to society

'To have crossed his path as a listener was enriching; to have had him as a mentor was unforgettable,' writes Tony MacMahon of the uilleann piper Séamus Ennis. In New York and Dublin in the 1960s, MacMahon lived with, played with and learned from Ennis, and here he recalls some of the rituals and skills of the artist that made him unique.

Obair le Déanamh

Breandán Ó hEaghra

Breandán Ó hEaghra hears the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland in New York

The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson

Peter Rosser

The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, Edited by Mark Fisher, Zero Books, Hampshire, England

Have a Little Faith

John McLachlan

Promoters of art mislead audiences by suggesting that there is meaning where there is none. Sometimes you just have to trust the artist, writes John McLachlan