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Music in Ireland is one of various case-study volumes that may be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from galore diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the exercise of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical circumstance as a point of departure, covering historical info and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The internet site also includes instructional materials to accompany each study.
Music in Ireland provides an engaging and focalized introduction to Irish established music–types of singing, instrumental music, and dance that reflect the social values and political messages central to Irish identity. This music thrives today not only in Ireland but also in areas allround North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, Music in Ireland provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender. Using the informal instrumental and singing session as a focal point, Dorothea E. Hast and Stanley Scott take readers into contemporary performance environments and explore a good deal of facets of the tradition, from the “craic” (good-natured fun) to performance style, repertoire, and instrumentation. Incorporating first-person accounts of performances and consultations with performers and folklorists, the writers emphasize the significant roles that persons play in music-making and illumine national and global musical trends. They likewise address commercialism, globalization, and cross-cultural collaboration, issues that have become progressively primary as more Irish artists enter the global marketplace through recordings, tours, and large-scale merchandise like Riverdance.
Packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, Music in Ireland features guided listening and hands-on actions that concede readers to gain experience in Irish culture by getting active players in the music.
Review… a well-written and highly readable work whose heart and mind are in the right place. Irish Examiner (Cork)
About the AuthorStanley Scott and Dora Hast are both at Southern Connecticut State University. Bonnie C. Wade is at University of California, Berkeley. Patricia S. Campbell is at University of Washington.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
 For anyone curious about how & why Irish music sounds so
By John L Murphy
In a new volume in Oxford’s Global Music Series, the subtitle `Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture’ emphasises the musical force gained by Irish music from its being rooted in the local. Dorothea Hast and Stanley Scott, practitioners and scholars both, visit a seisiun at Gleesons pub in Clare near the Miltown Malbay centre of melodic pilgrimage, interview traditional singers Len Graham from Glenarm and his wife, Padraigin Ni Uallachain, from Louth, and analyze a performance held at Trinity Inn near the college in Dublin under the auspices of the Goilin Singer’s Club. By concentrating on these three manifestations of the current Irish scene, emphasising in turn the instrumental, the sean-nos and song tradition, and the song as both perpetuating the tradition and welcoming the innovative, Hast and Scott provide an overview easily enjoyed in a couple of sittings along with the accompanying 28-track CD, keyed to their informative text.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
 Sets the standard
By James R. Cowdery
This outstanding book fills a long-standing lacuna. It will immediately become the standard introductory text for Irish music, and it should remain so for the forseeable future–it’s hard to imagine what could surpass it. The material is elegantly organized and very well presented. I particularly like the way that the reader is welcomed into real traditional music events; in these sections the material truly comes alive. The recorded examples are lovely.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
great overview/history of traditional Irish music
By Laura Massey
I’ve always enjoyed Irish music when I’ve had the opportunity, but I didn’t have any formal knowledge about it. This book was very accessible and covered a lot of bases — the music itself, the key instruments (the harp gets its due along with the more commonly seen fiddle and others), the relationship between Irish music and Irish history and culture, and an intro to various types of traditional Irish music. And a real sense of the Irish people and personality comes through. (Conversations with many of Ireland’s leading performers are reported in the book). The accompanying CD is great: again part education, part performance. Some recently performed pieces and some fascinating recordings from decades past. Recommended.
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