Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music
by Ciaran Carson
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Author: Ciaran CarsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-03-17
ISBN: 0865475318
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: North Point Press
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- ISBN13: 9780865475311
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Summary of Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music
Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.
Reading these essays by an Irish folk musician, you are drawn in and transported, and it begins to seem that you can hear the fiddles and bodhrans, and you can almost smell the Guinness. Ciaran Carson, who has published several books of poetry, spent many years playing traditional Irish music in pubs with sawdust on the floor, and he evokes both scene and sound brilliantly in prose. We're lucky that the talented Mr. Carson takes time to put down his flute and pick up the pen. Anyone who appreciates folk music, or anyone who just likes fine writing, will enjoy this wondrously quirky little book.
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