Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409448924 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Focusing on the rural European region of North Kerry in the south-west of Ireland, Catherine Foley examines three step-dance practices: one, the rural Molyneaux step-dance practice, representing the end of a relatively long-lived system of teaching by itinerant dancing masters in the region; two, Rinceoirà na RÃochta, a dance school representative of the urbanized staged, competition orientated practice, cultivated by the cultural nationalist movement, the Gaelic League, established at the end of the nineteenth century, and practised today both in Ireland and abroad; and three, the stylized, commoditized, folk-theatrical practice of Siamsa TÃre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, established in North Kerry in the 1970s. For many people step dancing is associated mainly with the Irish step-dance stage shows, Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, which assisted both in promoting the dance form and in placing Ireland globally. Tracing the trajectory of step dancing in Ireland, she tells its story from roots in eighteenth-c
Thérèse Smith); she has also contributed articles to the International Encyclopedia of Dance, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, and the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland. Catherine E. She is the Founding Course Director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She is also a qualified Irish step dance teacher. She also supervises doctoral research in d
For those who are unfamiliar with the discipline of ethnochoreology, it provides a worthy introduction to dance research and its potential usefulness in sociocultural studies. Finally this book provides an excellent example of how to go about a fieldwork project in order to faithfully represent the experiences and understandings of the people whose lives we are privileged to study.' Australasian Journal of Irish Studies . For those interested in Irish history, it provides another perspective into the social attitudes and values of the rural community being studied. Prize: Shortlisted for The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2014: 'A well conducted and contextualised ethnography with a useful historical perspective. The study brings out the developing tensions between tradition and traditionality (with local traditions being eroded in favour of a more broadl