Becoming An Irish Traditional Musician

Author : Jessica Cawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000174373

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Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician by Jessica Cawley Pdf

Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning practice, outlining the motivations and obstacles learners experience during musical development. By exploring learning from the point of view of the learners themselves, the author provides new insights into modern Irish traditional music culture and how people begin to embody a musical tradition. This book charts the journey of becoming an Irish traditional musician and explores how musicality is learned, developed, and embodied.

Author : Martin Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317008408

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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives by Martin Dowling Pdf

Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth century to explore the question of the antiquity of the tradition and the class locations of its origins. Dowling argues in the second chapter that the formation of what is today called Irish traditional music occurred alongside the economic and political modernization of European society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dowling goes on to illustrate the public discourse on music during the Irish revival in newspapers and journals from the 1880s to the First World War, also drawing on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan to place the field of music within the public sphere of nationalist politics and cultural revival in these decades. The situation of music and song in the Irish literary revival is then reflected and interpreted in the life and work of James Joyce, and Dowling includes treatment of Joyce’s short stories A Mother and The Dead and the 'Sirens' chapter of Ulysses. Dowling conducted field work with Northern Irish musicians during 2004 and 2005, and also reflects directly on his own experience performing and working with musicians and arts organizations in order to conclude with an assessment of the current state of traditional music and cultural negotiation in Northern Ireland in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Author : Helen O'Shea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015080867404

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The Making of Irish Traditional Music by Helen O'Shea Pdf

The book challenges the notion that Irish Traditional music expresses an essential Irish identity, arguing that it was an ideological construction of cultural nationalists in the nineteenth century, later commodified by the music and tourism industries. As a social process, musical performance is complicated by the varying experiences of musicians and listeners. The question of an Irish identity expressed musically is further explored through the experiences of both 'local' and 'foreign' musicians, including the author. The conclusion that a radicalised ideal of national culture and an assimilative model of cultural contact are compatible has important implications for Irish society today. Irish traditional music is now performed and consumed world-wide. The Making of Irish Traditional Music considers the implications of this for the way we understand music's relationship to individual and collective identities such as ethnicity and nationality. The core of this book is its analysis of the experiences of 'foreigners' playing Irish music, both in Australia and in the heart of Ireland's traditional music empire, County Clare, as 'pilgrims' to summer schools.

Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135204143

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Focus: Irish Traditional Music by Sean Williams Pdf

Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. Ireland's size relative to Britain or to the mainland of Europe is small, yet its impact on musical traditions beyond its shores has been significant, from the performance of jigs and reels in pub sessions as far-flung as Japan and Cape Town, to the worldwide phenomenon of Riverdance. Focus: Irish Traditional Music interweaves dance, film, language, history, and other interdisciplinary features of Ireland and its diaspora. The accompanying CD presents both traditional and contemporary sounds of Irish music at home and abroad.

Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000050196

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Focus: Irish Traditional Music by Sean Williams Pdf

Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition introduces the instrumental and vocal musics of Ireland, its diaspora in North America, and its Celtic neighbors while exploring the essential values underlying these rich musical cultures and placing them in broader historical and social context. With both the undergraduate and graduate student in mind, the text weaves together past and present, bringing together important ideas about Irish music from a variety of sources and presenting them, in three parts, within interdisciplinary lenses of history, film, politics, poetry, and art: I. Irish Music in Place and Time provides an overview of the island’s musical history and its relationship to current performance practice. II. Music Traditions Abroad and at Home contrasts the instrumental and vocal musics of the "Celtic Nations" (Scotland, Wales, Brittany, etc.) and the United States with those of Ireland. III. Focusing In: Vocal Music in Irish-Gaelic and English identifies the great songs of Ireland’s two main languages and explores the globalization of Irish music. New to this edition are discussions of those contemporary issues reflective of Ireland’s dramatic political and cultural shifts in the decade since first publication, issues concerning equity and inclusion, white nationalism, the Irish Traveller community, hip hop and punk, and more. Pedagogical features—such as discussion questions, a glossary, a timeline of key dates, and expanded references, as well as an online soundtrack—ensure that readers of Focus: Irish Traditional Music, Second Edition will be able to grasp Ireland's important social and cultural contexts and apply that understanding to traditional and contemporary vocal and instrumental music today.

Author : Fintan Vallely,Charlie Piggott
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024300241

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Blooming Meadows by Fintan Vallely,Charlie Piggott Pdf

This is a book of outstandingly warm, quirky and personality-laden pictures by the photographer Nutan. The moods and themes of these images are developed in the texts by Fintan Vallely and Charlie Piggott into personalities, lives, community and nation through biography, interview, comment, poetry and song. The voices are those of musicians and singers who have helped shape the revival of traditional music since the 1950s, along with today's generation of talented, articulate and highly educated players. Nostalgia, nationalism, romanticism, virtuosity and communitas here meet art and quiet confidence in cultural meaning.

Author : Fintan Vallely
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814788025

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The Companion to Irish Traditional Music by Fintan Vallely Pdf

"The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is not just the ideal reference for the interested enthusiast and session player, it also provides a unique resource for every library, school and home with an interest in the distinctive rituals, qualities and history of Irish traditional music and song."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781847175083

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O'Brien Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Pdf

The history of Irish traditional music, song and dance from the mythological harp of the Dagda right up to Riverdance. Exploring an abundant spectrum of historical sources, music and folklore, this guide uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the role of the music maker in Penal Ireland, as well as the popularity of dance tunes and set dancing from the end of the 18th century. It also follows the music of the Irish diaspora from as far apart as Newfoundland and the music halls of vaudeville to the musical tapestry of Irish America today.

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781847179401

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A Short History of Irish Traditional Music by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Pdf

The history of Irish traditional music, song and dance from the mythological harp of the Dagda right up to Riverdance and beyond. Exploring an abundant spectrum of historical sources, music and folklore, this guide uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the role of the music maker in Penal Ireland, as well as the popularity of dance tunes and set dancing from the end of the 18th century. It also follows the music of the Irish diaspora from as far apart as Newfoundland and the music halls of vaudeville to the musical tapestry of Irish America today.

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : O'Brien Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000055893402

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A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Pdf

From the mythological harp of the Dagda to Riverdance, this concise history of Irish traditional music and dance explores a rich spectrum of historical sources and folklore. It uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the rote of the music maker in Penal Ireland, and the popularity of dance tunes and set dancing from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. It also follows the music of the Irish diaspora from the music halls of vaudeville to the musical tapestry of Irish America today.

Author : Gregory Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Folk musicians
ISBN : 1838224009

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In Nearly Every House by Gregory Daly Pdf

Author : Tes Slominski
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819579289

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Trad Nation by Tes Slominski Pdf

A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. Tes Slominski argues that ethnic nationalism hinders this music's development today in an increasingly multiethnic Ireland and in the transnational Irish traditional music scene. She discusses early 21st century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia Clifford, a fiddler who lived much of her life in England, and explores the experiences of women, LGBTQ+ musicians, and musicians of color in the early 21st century.

Author : Rebecca E. Farrell
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781607095798

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Across the Water by Rebecca E. Farrell Pdf

This book gives general music teachers the tools to introduce the music and dance of Ireland while respecting the music's cultural origins. Readers learn how Irish traditional music is viewed both in formal and informal schools in Ireland and find a literature review of current ethnomusicology and world music resources.

Author : Tomás Ó Canainn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 0710000219

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Traditional Music in Ireland by Tomás Ó Canainn Pdf

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : O'Brien Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN : PSU:000053375292

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O'Brien Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Pdf

The books in this series explore the lore, legends, music, and politics of Ireland. Their concise, pocket-sized format is well suited for aficionados as well as those who have a general interest in the topics. The role of musicians in Irish society arid the significance of the songs and dances they produced are explored in this overview of the Irish musical tradition. From the hypnotic harp music of early Ireland in the fifth century BC to the "Lord of the Dance and "Riverdance phenomena of the 1990s, a wide spectrum of historical sources, music, and folklore are examined, many of which provide a record of times long passed and little documented. Covering the entire breadth of Irish music, this book profiles the major musicians and musical groupings of each era and explores the continued popularity of Irish traditional music.