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Flowing Tides - History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (Hardcover)
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Flowing Tides - History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape (Hardcover)
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Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland
occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world.
Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and
instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span
the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by
commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most
popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic
seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca
for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of
Ireland. For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored
by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann
piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish
traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and
historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gearoid O
hAllmhurain reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical
pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows
for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while
simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world
beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars
like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Ceili Band. Placing the
testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural
history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides
explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the
period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth
of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic
Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic
music and culture.
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