Overview
"The study of ""Celtic"" culture has been locked with modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism and labour migration. This volume collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music and the place of music in the construction of Celtic ""imaginaries"". It provides detailed case studies of the global dimensions of Celtic music in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany and amongst diasporas in Canada, the US and Australia, with specific reference to pipe bands, traditional music education in Edinburgh, the politics of popular/traditional cross over in Ireland and the Australian bush band phenomenon. Contributors include performer musicians as well as academic writers."
Full Product Details
Author: Martin Stokes ,
Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Imprint: Scarecrow Press
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.524kg
ISBN: 9780810847804
ISBN 10: 0810847809
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 07 October 2003
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking--strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of innovation into tradition. Music Research Forum The book certainly raises questions, and avoids the pat answers to questions of identity and location provided by the growing number of popularisations of the field currently available... Popular Music Celtic Modern creates a sense of dialogue across disciplines, ethnicities, and generations...the book has value for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and participants involved with many musics. -- vol. 61 Notes, DECEMBER 2004 Sophisticated and valuable essays...The collection is significant for its substantive content and because of the special role that the phenomenon of Celtic music has played in the rethinking of fundamental ideas about the place of music in contemporary culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Choice
...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking-strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of innovation into tradition. Music Research Forum The book certainly raises questions, and avoids the pat answers to questions of identity and location provided by the growing number of popularisations of the field currently available... Popular Music Celtic Modern creates a sense of dialogue across disciplines, ethnicities, and generations...the book has value for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and participants involved with many musics. -- vol. 61 Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, DECEMBER 2004 Sophisticated and valuable essays...The collection is significant for its substantive content and because of the special role that the phenomenon of Celtic music has played in the rethinking of fundamental ideas about the place of music in contemporary culture. Summing Up: Recommended. CHOICE
Celtic Modern creates a sense of dialogue across disciplines, ethnicities, and generations....the book has value for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and participants involved with many musics.--vol. 61 Notes
Author Information
Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Music and also the College Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. He has won the Leverhulme Trust award, the Curl Lectureship from London's Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residential fellowship from the Franke Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago. Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.
