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Ancestral imprints : histories of Irish traditional music and dance
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This book is about the history and practice of recording Irish traditional music and dance, and the variety of documents that exist as a result of the activities of collectors both in Ireland and i...
This book is about the history and practice of recording Irish traditional music and dance, and the variety of documents that exist as a result of the activities of collectors both in Ireland and in North America.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Therese Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2012
- [Place of publication not identified] : Cork University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : illustrations, music, digital file
- ISBNs
- 1909005045, 9781909005044, 1859184928, 9781859184929, 1859184928
- OCLC
- ocn808778751, on1097096813
- "A publication of the International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and indexes.
- English.
- Introduction : footprints in our sand / Therese Smith -- 1. From Waterford to Berlin and back to Ireland : Richard Henebry's wax cylinder recordings and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv / Susanne Ziegler -- Nineteenth-century manuscript collections -- 2. Transcriptions of a Mayo Farmer : the Philip Carolan Collection of Irish Music / Angela Buckley -- 3. Recording music in the nineteenth century : the contribution of George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948) / Alison Slattery -- 4. Recording a tradition : the contribution of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914) / Lisa Morrissey -- Ireland and the Irish diaspora -- 5. Captain O'Neill and the Americans / Paul de Grae -- 6. Capturing diversity whilst creating canon : the advent of sound recording in Irish traditional music / Jimmy O'Brien Moran -- Audio and video recording -- 7. The notion and process of collecting, recording and representing Irish traditional music, song and dance : the Muckross House Collection / Catherine Foley -- 8. Broadcasting Bailiúchán Bhairbre : researching and representing recordings via radio / Deirdre Ní Chonghaile -- 9. Radio and regions in Irish traditional music / Daithí Kearney -- Song -- 10. Popularity and revival : factors affecting harp reception in the 1950s and 1960s / Helen Lawlor -- 11. Sean-Nós singing : ideological perspectives on a native art / Róisín Nic Dhonncha -- 12. Mediated music? : the impact of recording on Irish traditional song performance / Susan Motherway -- 13. Irish music at the edge of history / Philip V. Bohlman -- Notes -- Bibliographies