The Irishness of Irish music

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The Irishness of Irish music

John O'Flynn

Ashgate, c2009

タイトル別名

Ashgate popular and folk music series

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"Ashgate popular and folk music series"--CIP and dust jacket

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-224), discography (p. [225]-226), filmography (p. [227]), and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Contents: Irishness and music: towards an interpretive framework
  • A brief and recent history of Irish music
  • Mapping the field
  • Snapshots
  • Ireland in music?
  • Irishness and music in a changing society
  • The music
  • Authenticity and Irish music
  • Conclusion: Irishness and music 'inside out'
  • Bibliography
  • Discography
  • Filmography
  • Index.

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