Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)

Music in Ireland is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in Ireland provides an engaging and focused introduction to Irish traditional music--types of singing, instrumental music, and dance that reflect the social values and political messages central to Irish identity. This music thrives today not only in Ireland but also in areas throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, Music in Ireland provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender. Using the informal instrumental and singing session as a focal point, Dorothea E. Hast and Stanley Scott take readers into contemporary performance environments and explore many facets of the tradition, from the "craic" (good-natured fun) to performance style, repertoire, and instrumentation. Incorporating first-person accounts of performances and interviews with performers and folklorists, the authors emphasize the significant roles that people play in music-making and illuminate national and international musical trends. They also address commercialism, globalization, and cross-cultural collaboration, issues that have become increasingly important as more Irish artists enter the global marketplace through recordings, tours, and large-scale productions like Riverdance. Packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, Music in Ireland features guided listening and hands-on activities that allow readers to gain experience in Irish culture by becoming active participants in the music.

Arts & Photography

Hast, Dorothea E.

Scott, Stanley

Music

Oxford University Press

Music in Ireland is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Music in Ireland provides an engaging and focused introduction to Irish traditional music--types of singing, instrumental music, and dance that reflect the social values and political messages central to Irish identity. This music thrives today not only in Ireland but also in areas throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, Music in Ireland provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender. Using the informal instrumental and singing session as a focal point, Dorothea E. Hast and Stanley Scott take readers into contemporary performance environments and explore many facets of the tradition, from the "craic" (good-natured fun) to performance style, repertoire, and instrumentation. Incorporating first-person accounts of performances and interviews with performers and folklorists, the authors emphasize the significant roles that people play in music-making and illuminate national and international musical trends. They also address commercialism, globalization, and cross-cultural collaboration, issues that have become increasingly important as more Irish artists enter the global marketplace through recordings, tours, and large-scale productions like Riverdance. Packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, Music in Ireland features guided listening and hands-on activities that allow readers to gain experience in Irish culture by becoming active participants in the music.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.

Local Government in California

History

Bollens, John C.

Americas

University of California Press

Book by Hast, Dorothea E., Cowdery, James R., Scott, Stanley

Exploring the World of Music

Cowdery, James R.

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Frontiers of Consciousness is a study of the problem of consciousness in a historic period of revolutionary change, and an authentic example of “interdisciplinary studies.” The book contains a wealth of insight into the conceptual interrelationships between the work of the American philosophers who have been called the Builders (William James, Josiah Royce, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the work of three great modernist poets (T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams).

Frontiers of Consciousness: Interdiscilipinary Studies in American Philosophy and Poetry

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Fordham University Press

Frontiers of Consciousness is a study of the problem of consciousness in a historic period of revolutionary change, and an authentic example of interdisciplinary studies.The book contains a wealth of insight into the conceptual interrelationships between the work of the American philosophers who have been called the Builders (William James, Josiah Royce, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the work of three great modernist poets (T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams).

Regulations V Compensation in Land Use Controls

Costonis, John J.

Berger, Curtis J.

Univ of California Inst of

This volume in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's oral history series celebrates the life and work of Popov, who died in 2001, at the age of 88, after a long and distinguished career as an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Scott, a colleague at UC Berkeley and a political scientist with a particular interest in seismic safety policy and earthquake engineering, brings together interviews he conducted with Popov in 1996, material written by Popov himself, photos, and other information connected with Popov and his career. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Egor P. Popov (Connections: The Eeri Oral History Series, 9)

Science & Math

Popov, E. P.

Technology

Earth Pub Enterprise

Scott (retired, political science, U. of California, Berkeley) edits interviews the late Killinger conducted in 1959 with Brunnier, who founded the oldest extant engineering firm in San Francisco and whose portfolio included the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This structural engineering field history includes photos of notable buildings designed by De Maria, who carried on the work of H.J. Brunnier Associates. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Connections: The EERI Oral History Series, 8

Biographies & Memoirs

Brunnier, Henry J.

De Maria, Charles

Killinger, Frank

Leaders & Notable People

Earthquake Engineering Research

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