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Ancestral imprints histories of Irish traditional music and dance / [electronic resource] : edited by Therese Smith. - Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2012 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xv, 245 p.) :) ill., music, digital file. - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

"A publication of the International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland." Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and indexes.

Introduction : footprints in our sand / Therese Smith -- 1. From Waterford to Berlin and back to Ireland : Richard Henebry's wax cylinder recordings and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv / Susanne Ziegler -- Nineteenth-century manuscript collections -- 2. Transcriptions of a Mayo Farmer : the Philip Carolan Collection of Irish Music / Angela Buckley -- 3. Recording music in the nineteenth century : the contribution of George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948) / Alison Slattery -- 4. Recording a tradition : the contribution of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914) / Lisa Morrissey -- Ireland and the Irish diaspora -- 5. Captain O'Neill and the Americans / Paul de Grae -- 6. Capturing diversity whilst creating canon : the advent of sound recording in Irish traditional music / Jimmy O'Brien Moran -- Audio and video recording -- 7. The notion and process of collecting, recording and representing Irish traditional music, song and dance : the Muckross House Collection / Catherine Foley -- 8. Broadcasting Bailiúchán Bhairbre : researching and representing recordings via radio / Deirdre Ní Chonghaile -- 9. Radio and regions in Irish traditional music / Daithí Kearney -- Song -- 10. Popularity and revival : factors affecting harp reception in the 1950s and 1960s / Helen Lawlor -- 11. Sean-Nós singing : ideological perspectives on a native art / Róisín Nic Dhonncha -- 12. Mediated music? : the impact of recording on Irish traditional song performance / Susan Motherway -- 13. Irish music at the edge of history / Philip V. Bohlman -- Notes -- Bibliographies.

This book is about the history and practice of recording Irish traditional music and dance, and the variety of documents that exist as a result of the activities of collectors both in Ireland and in North America.

9781909005044


Sound recording industry--History.--Ireland
Folk music--History and criticism.--Ireland


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

ML3654 / .A5 2012

781.62415