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Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Kaul, Adam

Hardcover

Series: Dance and Performance Studies, Book 3

DanceGeneral SociologyIrish History

ISBN10: 1845456238
ISBN13: 9781845456238
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its historical development from the days prior to the influx of visitors, through a period called the Revival, in which traditional Irish music was revitalized and transformed, to the modern period, which is dominated by tourism. A large number of incomers, locally known as blow-ins, have moved to the area, and the traditional Irish music is now largely performed and passed on by them. This fine-grained ethnographic study explores the commercialization of music and culture, the touristic consolidation and consumption of place, and offers a critique of the trope of authenticity, all in a setting of dramatic social change in which the movement of people is constant.

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