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The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music

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The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music - O'Malley, Michael
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"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"--

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The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music 2022, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226818702

Hardcover