Beat Cop - Chicago''s Chief O''neill and the Creation of Irish Music

"Francis O'Neill was Chicago's larger-than-life police chief, starting in 1901- and he was an Irish immigrant with an intense interest in his home country's music. In documenting and publishing his understanding of Irish musical folkways, O'Neill became the foremost shaper of what "Irish music" meant. He favored specific rural forms and styles, and as Michael O'Malley shows, he was the "beat cop" -actively using his police powers and skills to acquire knowledge about Irish music and to enforce a nostalgic vision of it"--

About the author

Michael O'Malley is professor of US history in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the author of Face Value: The Entwined History of Money and Race in America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Michael O'Malley, Michael O''malley
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780226818702
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81870-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Chicago, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Illinois, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, Folk & traditional music, Traditional and folk music