The Summer Garth Brooks Didn't Come To Town

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Other

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Musicology, 5.9 OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

Publication Details

RTE Brainstorm, Updated / Thursday, 9 Jul 2020 15:55

Abstract

Garth Brooks is America's greatest selling solo artist of all time. His unprecedented impact on country music transferred to Ireland, but with both positive and negative outcomes. Sure, he wrote a song titled Ireland and released it on a multi-million selling album, but Brooks also caused a fiasco that prompted public protests, Oireachtas Committee hearings and changes to government legislation.

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