Ciarán Treacy

Songs of Love 1

Unfortunately, I have to admit from the off that a lot of the songs in this project will, reflecting my music taste, lean white and male. There are a lot of reasons for this, some of which I’m capable of rectifying, others less so. But for that very reason,

Songs of Love: Introduction

The love song is the basic unit of the song, we might even say the default form. In the same way that the novel has become the dominant prose form since the 18th century, the love song dominates the airwaves. Listen to a given radio station for an hour, regardless