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history and memory in an Irish soundscape
1 online resource : illustrations, music
Whether carried by emigrants and exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres. Clare, at the western edge of Europe on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a Home of the Music, a magnet for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. Gear?id? hAllmhur?in - a fourth generation Clare concertina player and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music- unveils the inner sanctum of this soundscape with the deft skills of a native storyteller and the panoptic.
Cover; Flowing Tides; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the Companion Website; L'entrée: Clare and Its Soundscape; On Europe's Edge; The Scope of This Book; 1. Recentering the Musical Periphery; Harvesting a Sonic Archive; Shifting Cartographies of Place and Mobility; 2. Napoleon to Parnell: Before and After the Famine; Ancien Régime Quadrilles and New Musical Spaces; Great Famine: Grim Requiem of the Music Maker; Fenian Concertinas and Land League Ballads; The Feminization of Musical Space; 3. Fifers, Tans, and Jazzers: Soundscape in Transition.
Temperance and Beyond: Fifes, Drums, Brass, and ReedClare Music Makers and the Fight for Irish Independence; The Roaring Twenties and Dance Hall Days; 4. Hearth and Clachan: The Musical Year in Rural Clare; Anois Teacht an Earraigh: Courting, Fasting, and Rites of Spring; Torthaí na Bealtaine: Fairies, Garlands, and Crossroad Capers; Aimsir an Fhómhair: Autumn Threshing, Meitheals, and Soirées; Ceol an Gheimhridh: Winter Cuaird and Wren Dances; 5. Out of Isolation: The Fleadh Down in Ennis; Pipers Three: Ennis, Reid, and Doran; Double Bass and Clog Box: Céilí Band Fever; 1956: Annus Mirabilis.
6. Autobahn to Doolin: Soundscape as a Cultural CommodityToonagh Pedagogue: A Quiet Musical Revolution; Doolin Discord: Counterculture and Pub Culture; Willie Week: Ireland's Musical Mecca; 7. The Tiger: Reappraising Global Clare; Packaging Tradition: Clare Music and the Celtic Tiger; To Rule and Guide: Clare Comhaltas at Century's End; Another Clare: Virtual, Vicarious, and Prosthetic; L'épilogue: Remembering and Forgetting; Appendix I: Field Notes-​The Hesitation Step; Appendix II: A Century of Clare Céilí Bands; Appendix III: Hereditary Musical Families in Clare; Notes
Glossary of Irish-​Language TermsDiscography; Archives/​Websites; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]