How Belfast got the blues : a cultural history of popular music in the 1960s / Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 20, 2020).

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Photo -- How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Belfast at a Crossroads -- What's in a decade? -- All just a little bit of history repeating ... -- Notes -- 1 1964 -- (Ulster says) no sympathy for the devil -- A British stage invasion (in 'of all the places in all of the world') -- Pop and politics: an early love affair? -- 'Laying traps for troubadours' -- A 'new Ulster' brimming with youthful vitality

It's Alright Ma, I'm only ... unequal under the law -- Popular-musical perversity: Ireland's contrary relationship to modernity -- Notes -- 2 The Political Power of a Film That Might Have Been -- Charlie Is My Darling: the hauntological screen -- 'In the film -- they will see what they're looking for -- the Rolling Stones'22 -- This song is a rebel song (but of a very particular kind) -- The rocky road from Dublin -- Paint it black -- 'Goin' home' -- Notes -- 3 'We Gotta Get into This Place' -- The globalizing city: getting the blues -- The emergent and increasing value of local produce

1960s' Belfast at peace ... who cares? -- A tale of two plaques -- Solomon Inc. -- Notes -- 4 'Them Are Coming!' -- 1964: the 'pivotal year' revisited -- Big bangs and black holes -- I read the news today -- oh boy! -- What's in a group? -- Hearsay and heresy -- From national to R & B group nomenclature -- Mister Showbiz and Doctor Jazz -- Notes -- 5 'A' Story of Them -- From 'Them are coming' to Them's arrival -- What's in a song (II)? -- What's in a studio? -- Riffing over reality -- a Formica Ulster -- What's in a riff? -- 'Firsts', influences and ownership -- What's in a name?

What's wrong with this picture(sleeve)? -- The backstreet (and backdoor) posterboys? -- 'British Plastics fucking moulded us' -- Solomon Inc. and NI plc -- Conclusion: not yet Them again -- Notes -- 6 Irish Lady Sings the Blues -- 'Easy, easy baby': early life in Northern Ireland -- A star is born: moving to London -- Patterson's musical legacy -- Challenging Irish popular music history -- 'Ottilie swings the Irish' (and the Irish popular music narrative) -- Jazz and the state: Mademoiselle Blues, Mr Show Business and Mr Jazz -- Notes -- 7 1966: The Summer of Love? -- Here comes the right

1966 -- 'the year the decade exploded' -- 'Up went Nelson': tensions coming to a head -- The British parliament has a Fitt -- Jailhouse rock -- If they think it's all over ... it is now -- Bridge over troubled water -- Northern Ireland and the Rolling Stones in 1966 -- Notes -- 8 Crossroads: Times Have Surely Changed -- Hello, goodbye -- Trying to shine a light -- Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel, and why? (The ghostly aftermath of a redacted film) -- The sound of silence -- Dead flowers in the rain -- Stray cat blues -- Do you regret organizing a peace concert? -- I am a woman of the ghetto

Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast's popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland's sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The Rolling Stones. 15 b/w illus.

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