Celtic Modern Music at the Global Fringe

by Stokes, Martin; Bohlman, Philip V.

• ISBN13: 9780810847804
• ISBN10: 0810847809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-07
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

This resource offers an opportunity to reflect critically on some of the insistent 'othering' that has accompanied much cultural production in and on the Celtic World, and that have prohibited serious critical engagement with what are sometimes described as the 'traditional' and 'folk' music of Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman	1	(26)
1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the Soul	27	(46)
Caroline Bithell
2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New Nationalism	73	(20)
Graeme Smith
3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley Irish	93	(26)
Johanne Devlin Trew
4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the Composer	119	(26)
Jerry Cadden
5 Tradition and Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic Phenomenon	145	(26)
Scott Reiss
6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh Atlantic	171	(30)
Dai Griffiths
7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern Age	201	(18)
Fintan Vallely
8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in Brittany	219	(38)
Desi Wilkinson
9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in Scotland	257	(18)
Peter Symon
10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than Thou	275	(10)
Timothy D. Taylor
Index	285	(6)
About the Contributors	291