The first critical study of Irish traditional music, The Making of Irish Traditional Music draws on the authorâ€™s observations and participation as a musician. It analyzes the experiences of foreigners playing Irish music at summer schools, where they encounter the tourism industryâ€™s "Ireland of the Welcomes", and in the heart of Irelandâ€™s traditional music empire, County Clare. The book concludes that a view of Irish traditional music as expressive of an ethnically pure, geographically bound, masculine, national culture is an inadequate basis for a multi-ethnic Irish society.
|Number of Pages||236|
|Publisher||Cork University Press|