Gearóid Ó Hallmhuráin

Flowing Tides (eBook, PDF)

History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gear?id ? hAllmhur?in reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora C?il? Band. Placing the testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic music and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199380091
• Artikelnr.: 48794947

Autorenporträt

Professor Gear?id ? hAllmhur?in is an award-winning Irish musician, ethnomusicologist and cultural historian. Formerly Jefferson Smurfit Chair of Irish Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he is the inaugural holder of the bilingual Johnson Chair in Qu?bec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montr?al.

Inhaltsangabe

Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
Table of Contents
Foreword by Harry White
Preface
About the Companion Website
L'entrée: Clare and its Soundscape
On Europe's Edge
The Scope of this Book
1 Re-centering the Musical Periphery
Harvesting a Sonic Archive
Shifting Cartographies of Place and Mobility
2 Napoleon to Parnell: Before and After the Famine
Ancien Regime Quadrilles and New Musical Spaces
Great Famine: Grim Requiem of the Music Maker
Fenian Concertinas and Land League Ballads
The Feminization of Musical Space
3 Fifers, Tans and Jazzers: Soundscape in Transition
Temperance and Beyond: Fifes, Drums, Brass and Reed
Clare Music Makers and the Fight for Irish Independence
The Roaring Twenties and Dance Hall Days
4 Hearth and Clachan: The Musical Year in Rural Clare
Anois Teacht an Earraigh: Courting, Fasting, and Rites of Spring
Torthaí na Bealtaine: Fairies, Garlands and Crossroad Capers
Aimsir an Fhómhair: Autumn Threshing, Meitheals and Soirées
Ceol an Gheimhridh: Winter Cuaird and Wren Dances
5 The Fleadh Down in Ennis: Coming Out of Isolation
Pipers Three: Ennis, Reid and Doran
Double Bass and Clog Box: Céilí Band Fever
1956: Annus Mirabilis
6 Autobahn to Doolin: Soundscape as a Cultural Commodity
Toonagh Pedagogue: A Quiet Musical Revolution
Doolin Discord: Counter Culture and Pub Culture
Willie Week: Ireland's Musical Mecca
7 The Tiger: Re-appraising Global Clare
Packaging Tradition: Clare Music and the Celtic Tiger
To Rule and Guide: Clare Comhaltas at Century's End
Another Clare: Virtual, Vicarious and Prosthetic
L'épilogue: Remembering and Forgetting
Appendix I: Field Notes - The Hesitation Step
Appendix II: A Century of Clare Céilí Bands
Appendix III: Hereditary Musical Families in Clare
Glossary of Irish Language Terms
Notes
Discography
Archives/Websites
References
Index