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      The Irishness of Irish Music
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      The Irishness of Irish Music

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      The Irishness of Irish Music book

      The Irishness of Irish Music

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      The Irishness of Irish Music book

      ByJohn O’Flynn
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2009
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315086194
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9781315086194
      Subjects Arts
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      O’Flynn, J. (2009). The Irishness of Irish Music (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315086194

      ABSTRACT

      This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a particular notion of Irish musical identity. Rooting the study in the context of the recent history of popular, traditional and classical music in Ireland, as well as providing an overview of aspects of the national field of music production and consumption, O'Flynn goes on to argue that the relationship between Irish identity and Irish music emerges as a contested site of meaning. His analysis exposes the negotiation and articulation of civic, ethnic and economic ideas within a shifting hegemony of national musical culture, and finds inconsistencies between and among symbolic constructions of Irish music and observed patterns in the domestic field. More specifically, O'Flynn illustrates how settings, genres, social groups and values can influence individual identifications or negations of Irishness in music. While the apprehension of intra-musical elements leads to perceptions of music that sounds Irish, style and authenticity emerge as critical articulatory principles in the identification of music that feels Irish. The celebratory and homogenizing discourse associated with the international success of some Irish musical forms is not reflected in the opinions of the people interviewed by O'Flynn; at the same time, an insider/outsider dialectic of national identity is found in various forms of discourse about Irish music. Performers and composers discussed include Bill Whelan (Riverdance), Sinead O'Connor, The Corrs, Altan, U2, Martin Hayes, Dolores Keane and Gerald Barry.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|23 pages

      Irishness and music: Towards an interpretive framework

      chapter 2|20 pages

      A brief and recent history of Irish music

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Mapping the field

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Snapshots

      chapter 5|29 pages

      Ireland in music?

      chapter 6|23 pages

      Irishness and music in a changing society

      chapter 7|27 pages

      The music

      chapter 8|23 pages

      Authenticity and Irish music

      chapter |5 pages

      Conclusion

      Irishness and music ‘inside out’
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