The keeper's recital : music and cultural history in Ireland, 1770-1970 / Harry White.
| Author/creator | White, Harry, 1958- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press in association with Field Day, 1998. |
| Description | xi, 227 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical conditions ; 6 Critical conditions ; 6. ^A379099 |
| Contents | Introduction: music and the perception of music in Ireland -- Carolan, Handel and the dislocation of music in eighteenth-century Ireland -- History and romanticism: Bunting, Moore and the concept of Irish music in the nineteenth century -- Antiquarianism and politics: Davis, Petri, Hyde and the growth of music in a sectarian culture -- Heinrich Bewerunge and the Cecilian Movement in Ireland -- Music and the literary revival -- Seán Ó Riada and the crisis of modernism in Irish music -- Epilogue: music and the Irish literary imagination. |
| Abstract | This book traces the development and cultural dislocation of music in Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the death of Sean O Riada and it thereby identifies the function and status of music in those cultural and political ideologies of nationalism, colonialism and revival which it helped to foster. Although this book is primarily concerned with such figures as Turlough Carolan, Edward Bunting, Thomas Moore, Thomas Davis, George Petrie, Douglas Hyde, Heinrich Bewerunge, Charles Villiers Stanford, Arnold Bax and Sean O Riada, its scrutiny of the condition of music in Irish cultural history notably embraces Irish political and literary thought throughout the period 1770-1970. While not offered as a history of music in Ireland, it engages with the principal themes of that history in order to identify and distinguish between the symbolic power of Irish music (particularly in terms of its preservation) and its failure to generate a durable aesthetic of comparable significance to that which infused the Literary Revival. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. |
| LCCN | 98016129 |
| ISBN | 0268012326 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML287 .W5 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |