Dr Noel McLaughlin

Senior Lecturer

Department: Arts

My research is mostly concerned with popular music on film and television and issues of aesthetics, performance and meaning. I am particularly interested in rock and popular music culture's relationship to the national. Other areas of research interest include recent film-making in Britain and Ireland, post-colonialism and the cinema and recent American crime series.

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Key Publications

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How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s , McLaughlin, N., Braniff, J. 4 Dec 2020
‘How Belfast got the blues’: Towards an alternative history, McLaughlin, N., Braniff, J. 27 Dec 2017, In: Popular Music History
Another Green World?: Eno, Ireland and U2, McLaughlin, N. 11 Aug 2016, Brian Eno: Oblique Music, London, Bloomsbury
Another Green World?: Eno, Ireland and U2, McLaughlin, N. Sep 2014, In: Popular Music History
From men to boys: masculinity, politics and the Irish boy band, McLaughlin, N., McLoone, M. 2014, Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture, Basingstoke, Macmillan
Post-Punk Industrial Cyber Opera: The Ambivalent and Disruptive Hybridity of Early 1990s' U2, McLaughlin, N. 17 Jun 2014, Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond, Farnham, Ashgate
Rock and popular music in Ireland: before and after U2, McLaughlin, N., McLoone, M. 28 Feb 2012
Rattling out of control: A comparison of U2 and Joy Division on film, McLaughlin, N. 1 Jan 2011, In: Film, Fashion & Consumption
Bono! Do you ever take those wretched sunglasses off?: U2 and the performance of Irishness, McLaughlin, N. 2009, In: Popular Music History
Rock, fashion and performativity, McLaughlin, N. Jan 2009, The Men's fashion reader, London, Berg

Qualifications

Media Studies PhD October 13 1997
Media Studies BA (Hons) June 30 1991

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