Celtic Modern
Music at the Global Fringe
Published on 15. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-8108-4781-1 (ISBN)
Description
The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'Imaginaries'. It provides detailed case studies of the global dimensions of Celtic music in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany, and amongst Diasporas in Canada, the United States and Australia, with specific reference to pipe bands, traditional music education in Edinburgh, the politics of popular/traditional crossover in Ireland, and the Australian bush band phenomenon. Contributors include performer musicians as well as academic writers.
Critique necessitates reflexivity, and all of the contributors, active and in many cases professional musicians as well as writers, reflect in their essays on their own contributions to these kind of encounters. Thus, 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.
Critique necessitates reflexivity, and all of the contributors, active and in many cases professional musicians as well as writers, reflect in their essays on their own contributions to these kind of encounters. Thus, 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.
Reviews / Votes
...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking-strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of "innovation" into "tradition." * Music Research Forum * The book certainly raises questions, and avoids the pat answers to questions of identity and location provided by the growing number of popularisations of the field currently available... * Popular Music * Celtic Modern creates a sense of dialogue across disciplines, ethnicities, and generations....the book has value for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and participants involved with many musics. -- vol. 61 * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association * Sophisticated and valuable essays...The collection is significant for its substantive content and because of the special role that the phenomenon of Celtic music has played in the rethinking of fundamental ideas about the place of music in contemporary culture. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice Reviews *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8108-4781-1 (9780810847811)
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Persons
Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Music and also the College Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. He has won the Leverhulme Trust award, the Curl Lectureship from London's Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residential fellowship from the Franke Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago.
Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.
Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the Soul
Chapter 3 2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New Nationalism
Chapter 4 3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley Irish
Chapter 5 4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the Composer
Chapter 6 5 Tradition and the Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic Phenomenon
Chapter 7 6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh Atlantic
Chapter 8 7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern Age
Chapter 9 8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in Brittany
Chapter 10 9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in Scotland
Chapter 11 10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than Thou
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Contributors
Chapter 2 1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the Soul
Chapter 3 2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New Nationalism
Chapter 4 3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley Irish
Chapter 5 4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the Composer
Chapter 6 5 Tradition and the Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic Phenomenon
Chapter 7 6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh Atlantic
Chapter 8 7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern Age
Chapter 9 8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in Brittany
Chapter 10 9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in Scotland
Chapter 11 10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than Thou
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Contributors