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The Commitments

This book examines The Commitments (Parker, 1991) for the first time as a film, rather than an adaptation of Roddy Doyles bestselling novel, and as a significant cultural event in 1990s Ireland.

A major hit in Ireland and around the world, the film depicts the short-lived attempts of an ensemble of young working-class Dubliners to achieve success as a soul covers band, playing the hits of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and others, on a mission to bring soul back to Dublin. Drawing upon interviews with key figures involved in the film and its music, including Roddy Doyle, Angeline Ball, and Bronagh Gallagher, as well as archival research of director Alan Parkers papers, the book explores questions of authenticity associated with youth, music, class, and culture, and assesses the films legacy for the Irish film industry, Irish music scenes, and Irish youth. It also examines the films status as a truly transnational production.

This concise, yet interdisciplinary case study will be of interest to students and researchers in popular music, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as film and media studies.

Nessa Johnston is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research is about sound and music in screen media, cult cinema, media technologies, and media industries.

Cinema and Youth Cultures

Cinema and Youth Cultures engages with well-known youth films from American cinema as well as the cinemas of other countries. Using a variety of methodological and critical approaches, the series volumes provide informed accounts of how young people have been represented in film, while also exploring the ways in which young people engage with films made for and about them. In doing this, the Cinema and Youth Cultures series contributes to important and long-standing debates about youth cultures, how these are mobilized and articulated in influential film texts, and the impact that these texts have had on popular culture at large.

Series Editors: Sin Lincoln and Yannis Tzioumakis

The Beatles and Film

From Youth Culture to Counterculture

Stephen Glynn

Clerks

Over the Counter Culture and Youth Cinema

Peter Templeton

Moonlight

Screening Black Queer Youth

Maria Flood

The Commitments

Youth, Music, and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland

Nessa Johnston

Precious

Identity, Adaptation and the African American Youth Film

Katherine Whitehurst

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Cinema-and-Youth-Cultures/book-series/CYC

The Commitments

Youth, Music, and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland

Nessa Johnston

First published 2022

by Routledge

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2022 Nessa Johnston

The right of Nessa Johnston to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Johnston, Nessa, author.

Title: The Commitments : youth, music, and authenticity in 1990s Ireland / Nessa Johnston.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Cinema and youth cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021037235 (print) | LCCN 2021037236 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367273125 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032189710 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429296048 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Commitments (Motion picture) | Motion pictures and music. | Youth--Ireland--Social conditions--20th century. | Music--Social aspects--Ireland. | Popular culture--Ireland--History--20th century.

Classification: LCC PN1997.C7485 J66 2022 (print) | LCC PN1997.C7485 (ebook) | DDC 791.43/72--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037235

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037236

ISBN: 978-0-367-27312-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-18971-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-29604-8 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429296048

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India

Contents

Figures

Audition poster, Hubbard Casting

RT television coverage of The Commitments premiere, Savoy Cinema, Dublin

Jimmy Rabbittes interview

The Commitments photoshoot

Kids on bikes, dressed in greys and browns

Hospital waiting room scene

Roy-ad Sally Roy-ad

Mickah swallows microphone

Shy Skateboard Auditioner

Publicity still of band, showing clothing styles (photo David Appleby)

Dave from Eejit Records introduces himself to Jimmy

Jimmys reaction to And And! And

Alan Parkers cameo appearance as a recording engineer

Joey coaches Deans sax playing

Deco singing Show Me

Jimmy meets Derek and Outspan busking in Grafton Street

Glen Hansard busking in Grafton Street in Once (Carney, 2007)

The Commitments stamp (top right), Ireland, Centenary of Cinema, 1996

Series editors introduction

Despite the high visibility of youth films in the global media marketplace, especially since the 1980s when Conglomerate Hollywood realized that such films were not only strong box office performers but also the starting point for ancillary sales in other media markets as well as for franchise building, academic studies that focussed specifically on such films were slow to materialize. Arguably the most important factor behind academias reluctance to engage with youth films was a (then) widespread perception within the Film and Media Studies communities that such films held little cultural value and significance, and therefore were not worthy of serious scholarly research and examination. Just like the young subjects they represented, whose interests and cultural practices have been routinely deemed transitional and transitory, so were the films that represented them perceived as fleeting and easily digestible, destined to be forgotten quickly, as soon as the next youth film arrived in cinema screens a week later.

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