Music in Ireland

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-514555-7
Verlag: OUP USA

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 223 g

Reihe: Global Music Series

Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, this study describes traditional Irish music and dance in Ireland and America. It provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender.

Includes a 70 minute CD allowing students to hear music discussed in the text

Contents
Foreword;Preface;CD Track list
1 Invitation to a Session
2 Historical Continuties: Music, Dance and the Making
of a Nation
3 Passing on the Tradition
4 The Dance Tune Tradition
5 Singers, Sessions, and Songs
6 The Sean-nos in the New Ireland: Irish Singing
Traditions
7 Irish Music in the Global Marketplace

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate students of ethnomusicology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hast, Dorothea E.

Scott, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikveranstaltungen und -organisationen, Aufführungspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothea E. Hast, Lecturer, Music Department, Eastern Connecticut State University and Stanley Scott, Adjunct Professor of Music, Southern Connecticut State University and Wesleyan University
Bonnie C. Wade, Chambers Chair in Music, University of California, Berkeley and Patricia S. Campbell, Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music, University of Washington