From hearth to heritage : the histories, genealogies and transmissions of a local traditional song repertoire in an Irish border community, c. 1800-1955 / John Tunney

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Galway : Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2018Description: xiv, 437 pages : figures ; 30 cmContent type:
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Introduction -- Literature review, methodologies and sources review -- Structuring a local history -- Geography, landscape and economy -- Community, identity and heritage -- Singers, songs and transmission -- Modelling the formation of song repertoires -- The folk revival in context - global and local -- Collecting the songs of the three townlands -- The dual liberations of the 1950s folk revival -- Conclusion
Dissertation note: Doctor of Philosophy in Heritage Studies. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2018 Summary: This study explores how the song repertoire of the three townlands of Tamur, Rushen and Mallybreen come into being and how, in the wake of the social dislocation engendered by the Great Famine and catastrophic decline that followed thereafter, such an apparently remote community came to be carrying such a rich intangible heritage
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Doctor of Philosophy in Heritage Studies. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 2018

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Introduction -- Literature review, methodologies and sources review -- Structuring a local history -- Geography, landscape and economy -- Community, identity and heritage -- Singers, songs and transmission -- Modelling the formation of song repertoires -- The folk revival in context - global and local -- Collecting the songs of the three townlands -- The dual liberations of the 1950s folk revival -- Conclusion

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This study explores how the song repertoire of the three townlands of Tamur, Rushen and Mallybreen come into being and how, in the wake of the social dislocation engendered by the Great Famine and catastrophic decline that followed thereafter, such an apparently remote community came to be carrying such a rich intangible heritage

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