Music and identity in Ireland and beyond / / edited by Mark Fitzgerald and John O'Flynn ; Barra Boydell [and fifteen others], contributors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786821103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-315-59661-X; 1-317-09250-3; 1-317-09249-X; 1-4724-0967-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9415
• Soggetti: Music - Ireland - History and criticism; Music - Social aspects - Ireland - History; Music - Northern Ireland - History and criticism; Music - Social aspects - Northern Ireland - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Historical Perspectives; 1 'Whatever has a Foreign Tone /We like much better than our own': Irish Music and Anglo-Irish Identity in the Eighteenth Century; 2 Traditional Music in the Irish Revival; 3 'A National School of Music Such as the World has Never Seen': Re-appropriating the Early Twentieth Century into a Chronology of Irish Composition; 4 The 'Irish Music' of Arnold Bax and E.J. Moeran; 5 Inventing Identities: The Case of Frederick May; 6 Forging a Northern Irish Identity: Music Broadcasting on BBC Northern Ireland, 1924-39 Part II: Recent and Contemporary Production; 7 'From Inside my Head': Issues of Identity in Northern Ireland through the Music of Kevin O'Connell; 8 The Honourable Tradition of Non-existence: Issues of Irish Identity in the Music and Writings of Raymond Deane; 9 Dancing at the Crossroads Remixed: Irish Traditional Musical Identity in Changing Community Contexts; 10 Morrissey's Gothic Ireland; 11 Post-punk Industrial Cyber Opera? The Ambivalent and ; Disruptive Hybridity of Early 1990's U2; Part III: Cultural Explorations 12 Gael or Gall? Musical Identity in Early 1970's Cape Clear Island; 13 Positive Vibrations: Musical Communities in African Dublin; 14 Kalfou Danjere? Interpreting Irish-Celtic Music; 15 Music in Ireland: Youth Cultures and Youth Identity; 16 The Invention of Ethnicity: Traditional Music and the Modulations of Irish Culture; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This interdisciplinary volume of essays contemplates whether 'music in Ireland' can be regarded as one interrelated plane of cultural and/or national identity, given the various conceptions and contexts of both Ireland and Music that give rise to multiple sites of identification. Arranged in interweaving sections of 'Historical Perspectives', 'Recent and Contemporary Production' and 'Cultural Explorations' its various chapters act to juxtapose the socio-historical distinctions between the major style categories - traditional, classical and popular - and to explore a range of dialectical relation