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Th The P Popular arizat ation an n and M d Modernization o of Ir Irish sh ( (an and Ir d Irish sh- Ame merican can) ) Musi sic Harrigan & Hart Presented sketches of different ethnic figures, placed firmly in urban


  1. Th The P Popular arizat ation an n and M d Modernization o of Ir Irish sh ( (an and Ir d Irish sh- Ame merican can) ) Musi sic

  2. Harrigan & Hart • Presented sketches of different ethnic figures, placed firmly in urban American setting. Helped introduce immigrants to America and America to immigrants. • Musical comedies featured characters & situations taken from everyday life of NYC’s lower classes (themes: jobs, recruiting, politics & voting, criminals & wrongdoing, language issues of immigrants, tenement housing, landlord-tenant disputes, social mobility) • Ex. “Mulligan Guard” series

  3. Give My Regards to Broadway… George M. Cohan, “Harrigan,” from 50 Miles from Boston, 1907

  4. Tin Pan Alley & “Irishness” in Popular Song Irish tenor John McCormack at New York Hippodrome, 1915-1916

  5. The Ir Irish F Folk k Revival

  6. The he Imp mpact act of Rive iverd rdance ance

  7. Impa Impact of t the he “N “New Ir Irish” & ish” & Celt ltic Pun ic Punk/ k/Roc ock The Pogues The Dropkick Murphys

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