Collecting Music in the Aran Islands - A Century of History and Practice (Paperback)

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the task of gathering music has been taken up by a much broader group than scholars. The resulting collections created by these various people can be impacted by the individual collectors' political and social concerns, cultural inclinations, and even simple happenstance, demonstrating a crucial yet underexplored relationship between the music and those preserving it.Collecting Music in the Aran Islands, a critical historiographical study of the practice of documenting traditional music, is the first to focus on the archipelago off the west coast of Ireland. Deirdre NI Chonghaile argues for a culturally equitable framework that considers negotiation, collaboration, canonization, and marginalization to fully understand the immensely important process of musical curation. In presenting four substantial, historically valuable collections from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she illustrates how understanding the motivations and training (or lack thereof) of individual music collectors significantly informs how we should approach their work and contextualize their place in the folk music canon.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Deirdre Ni Chonghaile
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-33244-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > History > European history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-299-33244-6
Barcode:	9780299332440

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