The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance (Hardcover, New Ed)

In The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance Susan Motherway examines the ways in which performers mediate the divide between local and global markets by negotiating this dichotomy in performance practice. In so doing, she discusses the globalizing processes that exert transformative influences upon traditional musics and examines the response to these influences by Irish traditional song performers. In developing this thesis the book provides an overview of the genre and its subgenres, illustrates patterns of musical change extant within the tradition as a result of globalization, and acknowledges music as a medium for re-negotiating an Irish cultural identity within the global. Given Ireland's long history of emigration and colonisation, globalization is recognised as both a synchronic and a diachronic phenomenon. Motherway thus examines Anglo-Irish song and songs of the Irish Diaspora. Her analysis reaches beyond essentialist definitions of the tradition to examine evolving sub-genres such as Country & Irish, Celtic and World Music. She also recognizes the singing traditions of other ethnic groups on the island of Ireland including Orange-Order, Ulster-Scots and Traveller song. In so doing, she shows the disparity between native conceptions and native realities in respect to Irish cultural Identity.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Susan H. Motherway
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-3423-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Music > Folk music
LSN:	1-4094-3423-0
Barcode:	9781409434238

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