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Flowing Tides
Gearoid O Hallmhurain
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Description for Flowing Tides
Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AVGC; AVGH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 652.
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the ... Read more
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199380084
SKU
V9780199380084
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About Gearoid O Hallmhurain
Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin is an award-winning Irish musician, ethnomusicologist and cultural historian. Formerly Jefferson Smurfit Chair of Irish Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he is the inaugural holder of the bilingual Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montréal.
Reviews for Flowing Tides
This is a welcome analytical study of Irish Traditional music, and one that has been heralded by the same author's 1998/2017 Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music. ... This is a book by a writer whose life is surely governed by 'clock time, schedules and timetables', and who earns his living and lives outside of Clare society. But he is ... Read more