Here Comes Everybody! Remembering Joyce’s Music

Practically everyone who knew Joyce observed his enduring love for music, as well as the fundamental role that it played in his life. Many of these reminiscences have been preserved, either in formal memoirs or in interview with researchers. This chapter provides a survey of that material in order to approach an understanding of Joyce as an artist for whom music came to represent a fundamental social and subjective experience—a key mode of connection between his own life, his art and the people that he wanted to represent in his work.