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The Irishness of Irish Music (Paperback)
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The Irishness of Irish Music (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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This book brings together important material from a range of
sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians,
academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to
use, a particular notion of Irish musical identity. Rooting the
study in the context of the recent history of popular, traditional
and classical music in Ireland, as well as providing an overview of
aspects of the national field of music production and consumption,
O'Flynn goes on to argue that the relationship between Irish
identity and Irish music emerges as a contested site of meaning.
His analysis exposes the negotiation and articulation of civic,
ethnic and economic ideas within a shifting hegemony of national
musical culture, and finds inconsistencies between and among
symbolic constructions of Irish music and observed patterns in the
domestic field. More specifically, O'Flynn illustrates how
settings, genres, social groups and values can influence individual
identifications or negations of Irishness in music. While the
apprehension of intra-musical elements leads to perceptions of
music that sounds Irish, style and authenticity emerge as critical
articulatory principles in the identification of music that feels
Irish. The celebratory and homogenizing discourse associated with
the international success of some Irish musical forms is not
reflected in the opinions of the people interviewed by O'Flynn; at
the same time, an insider/outsider dialectic of national identity
is found in various forms of discourse about Irish music.
Performers and composers discussed include Bill Whelan
(Riverdance), Sinead O'Connor, The Corrs, Altan, U2, Martin Hayes,
Dolores Keane and Gerald Barry.
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