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Fieldwork

Essays on the Cultural History of Music in Ireland

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-83765-232-7
Verlag: Boydell Press
Erscheinungstermin: 03.06.2025
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An absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly renowned author.

This volume is a collection of fourteen essays on the history and reception of Irish music and music in Ireland. It addresses three prevailing themes: the historiography of Irish music, the influence of music on Irish writing (and vice versa), and the cultural identity and reception of Irish music both domestically and in the world at large. Its principal protagonists include Thomas Moore, W. H. Grattan Flood, George Moore, Edward Martyn, Charles Villiers Stanford, James Joyce, Dora Pejacevic, Ina Boyle, Aloys Fleischmann and Jennifer Walshe. These essays also identify and interrogate key questions underpinning a general crisis of reception in relation to Irish music, and particularly art music, within the domain of Irish studies. Fieldwork examines this crisis in the aftermath of The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (published in 2013) and a major retrospective of Irish art music, Composing the Island (curated and presented in 2016). It thereby engages closely with contemporary Irish art music and the challenges which this music has faced in the early decades of the twenty-first century.

This well-conceived and beautifully written work testifies to Harry White's central place in the shaping of the discourse surrounding the cultural history of Irish music over the last 40 years. White's gift for expression and memorably poetic turns of phrase allows the complexity of ideas and range of historical and literary knowledge examined in these essays to be deftly excavated and evaluated. Curiosity, provocativeness, imagination and literature are threaded through his exploration of how Irish history and experience have been imagined musically.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781837652327
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-83765-232-7
  • Verlag: Boydell Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 03.06.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2025
  • Serie: Irish Musical Studies
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 540 g
  • Seiten: 248
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

HARRY WHITE is Professor of Music at University College Dublin, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Series Editor (with Lorraine Byrne Bodley) of Irish Musical Studies.

Foreword by Diarmaid FerriterPreface & AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part One: Irish Musicology and its Affordances 1. Remembering Grattan Flood2. Aloys Fleischmann and Musicology in Ireland3. The Lexicography of Irish Musical Experience4. Musicology and Irish Studies5. Alternative Histories Part Two: The Irish Writer and Music 6. Thomas Moore and the Irish Harp7. A George Moore Quartet8. The Enthusiasms of Edward Martyn9. Joyce's Priesthood Part Three: Irish Music and its Contexts 10. Ireland in the European Ear11. Courtyards in Delft12. Reclaiming Stanford13. Amongst Women14. The Irish Composer and the WorldHarry White: A Bibliography of Writings on Irish Music and Music in Ireland, 1984-2024Index