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Irish Music and Musicians in the United States: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2010

PAUL F. WELLS  and
SALLY K. SOMMERS SMITH
PAUL F. WELLS
Affiliation:
pfwells@mtsu.edu
SALLY K. SOMMERS SMITH
Affiliation:
ssommers@bu.edu
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“The Irish came early and often to America,” quipped musicologist Charles Hamm in his landmark book Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. Although the largest waves of immigration occurred during the years of the potato famines in the 1840s and 1850s, the process began long before then and continues to the present day, albeit with many ebbs and flows in the stream. Today nearly 36.5 million people in the United States claim Irish ancestry.

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Introduction
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 4 , Special Issue 4: Irish Music in the United States , November 2010 , pp. 395 - 399
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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2010

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