num_pages: 208
description: Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it.
language: English
title: Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music
titlecomplete: Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music
genres: Ireland, Essays, Biography, Music, Nonfiction, Irish Literature, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 206
publisher: North Point Press