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Keepers Recital - Music and Cultural History in Ireland 1770-1970 (Paperback, New)
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Keepers Recital - Music and Cultural History in Ireland 1770-1970 (Paperback, New)
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This is the first study to survey the development of musical
thought in modern Irish cultural history. It registers the function
of music as a dynamic agent in the history of Irish ideas in the
period 1770 - 1970. Ireland's verbally dominated culture has
depended on music throughout its evolution, but the presence of
music - to say nothing of its impact on the formation of Irish
cultural thought - has been hitherto scarcely recognised. The
Keeper's Recital attempts to redress this neglect by examining the
role of music in Ireland's notably polarised cultural matrix by
means of three prevailing themes: the integrity of sectarian
culture, the political expression of cultural autonomy and the
symbolic force of celticism. The book traces the development and
cultural dislocation of music in Ireland from the late eighteenth
century to the death of Sean O Riada and it thereby identifies the
function and status of music in those cultural and political
ideologies of nationalism, colonialism and revival which it helped
to foster. Although The Keeper's Recital is primarily concerned
with such figures as Turlough Carolan, Edward Bunting, Thomas
Moore, Thomas Davis, George Petrie, Douglas Hyde, Heinrich
Bewerunge, Charles Villiers Stanford, Arnold Bax and Sean O Riada,
its scrutiny of the condition of music in Irish cultural history
notably embraces Irish political and literary thought throughout
the period 1770-1970. While not offered as a history of music in
Ireland, it engages with the principal themes of that history in
order to identify and distinguish between the symbolic power of
Irish music (particularly in terms of its preservation) and its
failure to generate a durable aesthetic of comparable significance
to that which infused the Literary Revival.
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