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

David Bowie Critical Perspectives

Professor Eoin Devereux, Dr Aileen Dillane and Dr Martin J. Power have published their co-edited volume David Bowie: Critical Perspectives. The book examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are Prof organised around the key themes of ‘textualities’, ‘psychologies’, ‘orientalisms’, ‘art and agency’ and ‘performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work.