Music in Ireland
Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
Dorothea E. Hast and Stanley Scott
July 2004
ISBN: 9780195145557
172 pages
Paperback
209x138mm
Description
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.
About the Author(s)
Dorothea E. Hast, Eastern Connecticut State University, and Stanley Scott, Southern Connecticut State University and Wesleyan University
Table of 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
Reviews
"... a well-written and highly readable work whose heart and mind are in the right place." - Irish Examiner (Cork)
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