Download PDF by John O'Flynn: The Irishness of Irish Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music

By John O'Flynn

ISBN-10: 1138265233

ISBN-13: 9781138265233

This e-book brings jointly very important fabric from various resources and highlights how executive organisations, musicians, teachers and advertisement businesses are fascinated by, and search to take advantage of, a specific concept of Irish musical identification. Rooting the research within the context of the new heritage of renowned, conventional and classical song in eire, in addition to supplying an summary of elements of the nationwide box of tune creation and intake, O'Flynn is going directly to argue that the connection among Irish id and Irish song emerges as a contested website of that means. His research exposes the negotiation and articulation of civic, ethnic and monetary principles inside of a transferring hegemony of nationwide musical tradition, and reveals inconsistencies among and between symbolic structures of Irish track and saw styles within the household box. extra particularly, O'Flynn illustrates how settings, genres, social teams and values can impression person identifications or negations of Irishness in tune. whereas the apprehension of intra-musical components results in perceptions of tune that sounds Irish, type and authenticity end up serious articulatory ideas within the id of song that feels Irish. The celebratory and homogenizing discourse linked to the foreign luck of a few Irish musical varieties isn't mirrored within the critiques of the folks interviewed by means of O'Flynn; while, an insider/outsider dialectic of nationwide identification is located in numerous different types of discourse approximately Irish song. Performers and composers mentioned comprise invoice Whelan (Riverdance), Sinead O'Connor, The Corrs, Altan, U2, Martin Hayes, Dolores Keane and Gerald Barry.

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