Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 1409435105
- ISBN-13
- 9781409435105
- Series
- Traditional Music and Irish Society
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-28
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Author
- Dr Martin Dowling
Description
These essays investigate the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The author integrates a survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth century to explore the question of the antiquity of the tradition and the class locations of its origins and he argues that the formation of Irish traditional music occurred alongside the economic and political modernization of European society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dowling goes on to illustrate the public discourse on music during the Irish revival in newspapers and journals from the 1880s to the First World War, also drawing on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan. The situation of music and song in the Irish literary revival is then reflected and interpreted in the life and work of James Joyce. Dowling concludes with an assessment of the current state of traditional music and cultural negotiation in Northern Ireland.
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