By Adam Kaul
The final century has visible radical social alterations in eire, that have impacted all elements of neighborhood lifestyles yet none extra so than conventional Irish song, an more and more very important identification marker either in eire and in a foreign country. the writer makes a speciality of a small village in County Clare, which turned one of those pilgrimage web site for these attracted to experiencing conventional tune. He starts off by means of tracing its old improvement from the times sooner than the inflow of tourists, via a interval referred to as "the Revival," within which conventional Irish tune used to be revitalized and remodeled, to the fashionable interval, that is ruled by means of tourism. quite a few incomers, in the neighborhood often called "blow-ins," have moved to the world, and the conventional Irish tune is now mostly played and handed on by means of them. This fine-grained ethnographic research explores the commercialization of song and tradition, the touristic consolidation and intake of "place," and provides a critique of the trope of "authenticity," all in a surroundings of dramatic social swap within which the circulate of individuals is constant.
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Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village (Dance and Performance Studies) by Adam Kaul
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