Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
I want to do ethnomusicology in relation to the politics in Northern Ireland. How it evolved and developed, how it was used a political force, it's influences, etc.

Studying that also gives me a chance to play and study music while I'm there.
What you might want to consider doing is studying the songs (some quite recent) of the loyalist community. There is a huge amount of music in NI that seems to be universally ignored by Irish musicologists, and virtually all of it comes from that community.