Celtic modern : music at the global fringe / edited by Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman.

Other author Stokes, Martin, editor.
Other author Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Descriptionvii, 293 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Celtic music--History and criticism.
Ethnomusicology.

SeriesEuropea ; no. 1
Europea ; no. 1. ^A563592
Contents Shared imaginations: Celtic and Corsican encounters in the soundscape of the soul / Caroline Bithell -- Celtic Australia: bush bands, Irish music, folk music, and the new nationalism / Graeme Smith -- Diasporic legacies: place, politics, and music among the Ottawa Valley Irish / Johanne Devlin Trew -- Policing tradition: Scottish pipe band competition and the role of the composer / Jerry Cadden -- Tradition and imaginary: Irish traditional music and the Celtic phenomenon / Scott Reiss -- "Home is living like a man on the run": John Cale's Welsh Atlantic / Dai Griffiths -- The Apollos of Shamrockery: traditional musics in the modern age / Fintan Vallely -- "Celtitude," professionalism, and the Fest Noz in traditional music in Brittany / Desi Wilkinson -- "You cannae take your music stand into a pub": a conversation with Stan Reeves about traditional music education in Scotland / Peter Symon -- Afterword: Gaelicer than thou / Timothy D. Taylor.
Abstract A collection of essays on the global circulation of Celtic music and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'imaginaries', which provides detailed case studies of the global dimensions of Celtic music in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany and the diasporas in Canada, the US and Australia.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003045637
ISBN0810847809 (alk. paper)
ISBN0810847817 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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