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Author:

Vallely, Fintan.

Title:

Tuned out : traditional music and identity in Northern Ireland / Fintan Vallely.

Publisher:

Cork University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 196 p. : ill., maps, music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Folk music--Northern Ireland--History and criticism.
Folk musicians--Northern Ireland.
Folk songs, English--Northern Ireland--History and criticism.
Folk dance music--Northern Ireland--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index.

Contents:

Sound, assumption and symbolism -- 'Folk' music and 'traditional' music -- Dance music and song -- Loyalty, identity and religion in Northern Ireland -- The myth of 'the west' -- The 'sound' of music -- GAA, culture and the Victorian model -- Fetishising the crossroads -- Religion, nationality, difference and inequality -- The radical impetus of 'folk' -- Traditional music in a modern world -- Performance style and political identification -- Dreams and realities - folk memory and Gaelic identity -- The way it was? -- The bridge of glass - Scotland and Ireland -- 'Crossing over' of tunes and songs -- A music- and song-transmission cornucopia -- Migration, movements and music -- The fluidity of change -- New nations, new times, new cultures -- The creation of modern style -- Tonal boundary-marking: prejudice, politics and ethnicity -- Withering and blooming in the seventies -- Jigging at the crossroads, 2008.

ISBN:

185918443X
9781859184431

OCLC:

(OCoLC)228374357

LCCN:

2008278532

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)