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Flowing tides : history and memory in an Irish soundscape / Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin.
LIBRA ML3654.7.C6 O5 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ó hAllmhuráin, Gearóid.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Ireland--Clare--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Ireland--Clare.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- L'entrée: Clare and Its Soundscape 1
- On Europe's Edge 3
- The Scope of This Book 10
- 1 Recentering the Musical Periphery 19
- Harvesting a Sonic Archive 21
- Shifting Cartographies of Place and Mobility 33
- 2 Napoleon to Parnell: Before and After the Famine 47
- Ancien Régime Quadrilles and New Musical Spaces 49
- Great Famine: Grim Requiem of the Music Maker 61
- Fenian Concertinas and Land League Ballads 75
- The Feminization of Musical Space 80
- 3 Fifers, Tans, and Jazzers: Soundscape in Transition 87
- Temperance and Beyond: Fifes, Drums, Brass, and Reed 89
- Clare Music Makers and the Fight for Irish Independence 97
- The Roaring Twenties and Dance Hall Days 105
- 4 Hearth and Clachau: The Musical Year in Rural Clare 121
- Anois Teacht an Earraigh: Courting, Fasting, and Riles of Spring 123
- Torthai na Bealtaine: Fairies, Garlands, and Crossroad Capers 129
- Aimsir an Fhómhuir: Autumn Threshing, Meitheals, and Soirées 136
- Ceol an Gheimhridh: Winter Cuaird and Wren Dances 140
- 5 Out of Isolation: The Fleadh Down in Ennis 151
- Pipers Three: Ennis, Reid, and Do ran 153
- Double Bass and Clog Box: Céili Band Fever 162
- 1956: Annus Mirabilis 171
- 6 Autobahn to Doolin: Soundscape as a Cultural Commodity 189
- Toonagh Pedagogue: A Quiet Musical Revolution 193
- Doolin Discord: Counterculture and Pub Culture 201
- Willie Week: Ireland's Musical Mecca 208
- 7 The Tiger: Reappraising Global Clare 217
- Packaging Tradition: Clare Music and the Celtic Tiger 220
- To Rule and Guide: Clare Combaltas at Century's End 231
- Another Clare: Virtual, Vicarious, and Prosthetic 235
- L'épilogue: Remembering and Forgetting 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297), discographies (pages 275-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199380084
- 0199380082
- 0199380090
- 9780199380091
- 0199380112
- 9780199380114
- 0199380104
- 9780199380107
- OCLC:
- 930059085
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