07: Music and the Gaelic Revival

• Initiation of modern, formal competitions (—>regular context for performers nowadays)

• idea of ´traditional´music emerged during this period

• preservation of uillean pipes (through competitions)

• Irish music, song and dance became important in establishing a distinct, collective irish national identity

  
  

• loss of language

• question of Identity

• Rising catholic middle class

• cultural nationalism

  —> irish culture was reconfigured/built thorugh cultural means

  —> centered on the revitalisation of cultural practices

An tOireachtas

Feis Ceoil

piping competition

competition of wire-strung-harp

discovery, vocal or instrumental performance of an ancient, not yet published irish melody

focused on literature

choir, drama, arts, crafts, games

sean nós

traditional and classical music styles

• Music is a big part of the irish national identity

• especially san nós singing

• establishing the formal context for musicians now

• preserving and reviving traditional irish arts

• preservaton of uillean pipes

Micí Chúmba O´Sullivan

Gol n amban sa ár

Air and fragment of a jig