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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives

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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives book

Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives

DOI link for Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives

Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives book

ByMartin Dowling
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550367
Pages 368 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315550367
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Dowling, M. (2014). Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315550367

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction: Modernity and Tradition

chapter 1|70 pages

The Eighteenth-Century Inheritance

chapter 2|62 pages

Foundations of a Modern Tradition

chapter 3|58 pages

Music in the Revival: The Feis Ceoil, The Gaelic League, and the Pipers

chapter 4|40 pages

James Joyce and Traditional Song

chapter 5|64 pages

Traditional Music and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

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