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Music, place and community : culture and Irish heritage in the Ottawa Valley
Author(s) :
Trew, Johanne
Description :
Because of its relative isolation until recent times, the Ottawa Valley has developed and maintained its own unique traditions and culture. Three predominant groups: the Irish, the Scots and the French-Canadians, settled in the region during the past two hundred years, in patterns that little respec...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
Laus Perennis : the emergence of a theology of music with reference to Post-Vatican II Irish Catholicism
Author(s) :
Phelan, Helen Frances
Description :
This work proposes the sourcing of a theology of music with particular reference to liturgical music developments in the Irish Catholic church since the Second Vatican Council. In doing so, it is confronted by two primary challenges: the complex relationship between music and liturgy and the equally...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
The Mescher bones playing tradition : syncopations on the American landscape
Author(s) :
Mercier, Mel
Description :
This dissertation explores the creation and transmission of the Mescher two-handed bones playing style which was first developed by the German-American farmer, Albert Mescher, in the 1920s, in Iowa, and subsequently passed on to his son, Jerry. Jerry has
since passed on the style to his sister, Bern...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
Journey into tradition : a social history of the Irish Button Accordion
Author(s) :
Ní Chaoimh, Máire
Description :
This thesis examines how the button accordion, first patented in 1829 and
available for sale in Ireland by 1831, became a member of the family of instruments
on which Irish traditional music is played. It traces the accordion’s journey into
tradition and the varied pathways taken along the way. The ...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
Transforming Carolan
Author(s) :
Joyce, Sandra
Description :
The life and music of the Irish harper / composer Turlough Carolan (1670-1738)
have been imagined and re-imagined in many different cultural contexts from the
eighteenth century. These imaginings frequently occur through engagement with
sources of Carolan’s music, as the primary means by which this ...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
The art of juncture – transformations of Irish traditional music
Author(s) :
Keegan, Niall
Description :
This thesis examines 'transformations' of Irish traditional music represented
in speech, notation and writing in historical and contemporary contexts.
Instances of these three modes of transformation are examined, and their
structure, role and motivations in the context of Irish traditional dance
mu...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
Rhythms of struggle : recovery, revival and re-creation of txalaparta in the Basque Country
Author(s) :
Escribano del Moral, María
Description :
This dissertation, the first extensive academic work on Txalaparta as a social
phenomenon, explores the ongoing revival and construction of this tradition and
percussion instrument amid the Basque struggle for self-determination. Based on
ethnographic work mainly undertaken from 1998 to 2006 in the ...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
The role of commercial recordings in the development and survival of Irish traditional music 1899-1993
Author(s) :
Hamilton, Samuel Colin
Description :
No abstract available
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1 The social and historical context of traditional music in Ireland - 2 Early media involvement in Irish traditional music- print in the pre-recording era – 3 The Irish in America and their music - 4: Commercial Irish recordings in America - 5 Decline at home and abroad - 6 Revi...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
The world of traditional dance music in Brittany : an exploration of the political, cultural and socio-economic reality of traditional dance music in Brittany 1992-1999
Author(s) :
Wilkinson, Desmond John
Description :
The concerns expressed in this work have a subtle interrelationship. They emerge from the authors background and are subsequently influenced by his experience as a performing musician and teacher in Brittany. The introduction contextualises this. This thesis offers an analysis of two important issue...
Repository :
ULIR
Language(s) :
English
I Lár an Aonaigh : iniúchadh ar an athmhíniú agus an taibhléiriú a déantar ar amhráin dhúchasacha Gaeilge in Éirinn agus in Albain i gcomhthéacs nua-aimseartha
Author(s) :
Denvir, Síle
Description :
Léargas atá sa saothar seo ar na claochluithe a tháinig ar thraidisiún na
hamhránaíochta Gaeilge in Éirinn agus in Albain ón gcomhluadar pobail tuaithe as ar
eascair sí amach i dtreo na bpobal domhanda idirnáisiúnta ina mbíonn sí ag feidhmiú
anois. Tá forbairtí éagsúla tagtha ar amhránaíocht na Gaei...
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ULIR
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