基本説明
Includes a 70 minute CD allowing students to hear music discussed in the text.
Full Description
Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, this study describes traditional Irish music and dance in Ireland and America. It provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender.
Contents
FOREWORD;PREFACE;CD TRACK LIST; 1. Invitation to a Session; 2. Historical Continuties: Music, Dance and the Making; OF A NATION; 3. Passing on the Tradition; 4. The Dance Tune Tradition; 5. Singers, Sessions, and Songs; 6. The Sean-nos in the New Ireland: Irish Singing; TRADITIONS; 7. Irish Music in the Global Marketplace
