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Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950-2010. Initially establishing geographical and chronological parameters, the book cites Birmingham's location at the hub of a road and communications network as key to the development of Irish music across a series of increasingly visible, publ...

Folk music --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Birmingham (England) --- Social life and customs. --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England)

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The ongoing debate about secularisation and religious change in twentieth-century Britain has paid little attention to the experience of those who swam against the cultural tide and continued to attend church. This study, based on extensive original archive and oral history research, redresses this imbalance with an exploration of church-based Christianity in post-war Birmingham, examining how churchgoers interpreted and responded to the changes that they saw in family, congregation, neighbourhood and wider society. One important theme is the significance of age and generational identity to patterns of religiosity amidst profound change in attitudes to youth, age and parenting and growing evidence of a widening 'generation gap' in Christian belief and practice. In addition to offering a new and distinctive perspective on the changing religious identity of late twentieth-century English society, the book also provides a rare case-study in the significance of age and generation in the social and cultural history of modern Britain. Ian Jones is the Director of the Saltley Trust (an educational charity), Birmingham.

Christianity -- Forecasting. --- Christianity. --- Religion. --- Church attendance --- Christians --- Conflict of generations --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Gap, Generation --- Generation gap --- Generational conflict --- Intergenerational conflict --- Generations --- Intergenerational relations --- Social conflict --- Religious adherents --- Attendance, Church --- Church-going --- Church membership --- Public worship --- History --- Attitudes --- Birmingham (England) --- Birmingham, Eng. --- Birmingham (West Midlands, England) --- City and Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Borough of Birmingham (England) --- Church history --- Attitudes.