Sounds Irish, Acts Global - Explaining the Success of Ireland's Popular Music Industry - Michael Mary Murphy
The Irish Arrive: Early Stages in the Music Industry
Sounds Irish, Acts Global - Explaining the Success of Ireland's Popular Music Industry - Michael Mary Murphy
Michael Mary Murphy [+]
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin
Michael Mary Murphy is a lecturer on the music industry at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin. He worked in the music industry for twenty years as an artist manager as well as an artist and repertoire (A&R) manager in New York and London. He has published a number of articles on the Irish music industry for academic journals and contributes to radio and print media outlets on Irish music industry topics.
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Individuals from Ireland and its diaspora played key roles in how the popular music industry developed. In the early 1900s, on both sides of the Atlantic, the Irish championed the legislation that enabled songwriters and composers to profit from their work. During that era, one of the most important people in Ireland’s recorded music industry was a female entrepreneur, Ellen O’Byrne. Although she is largely absent from music industry history, she was, arguably, ‘the founding mother of the Irish record industry’. At that time, the Shanley family, emigrants from county Leitrim, helped to shape the presentation of live music in the US.