Category: Issues

Peter Gilmore – A New Track for Paddy’s ‘Race-Horse’: Political Song in Shaping Pittsburgh’s Irish Diaspora

Please click on the download icon   to download a pdf of the article.   Dr. Peter Gilmore’s research and writing is centered on Presbyterians of Irish origin in western Pennsylvania and the intersection of religion, ethnicity and class. His article is based on a paper presented to the Niagara Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology on […]

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Liz Mellish – Bulgarian tracks: the road to the Koprivshtitsa Festival (and back again, and again)

Please click on the download icon   to download a pdf of the article.   Liz MELLISH. Independent researcher, PhD University College London (UCL) (2014). Secretary ICTM study group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe. Current projects involve investigating social dance, cultural events and choreographic practices in the Banat region of Romania, and the history of […]

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Rebecca Uberoi – “If You Play the Talking Drum They Will Be Happy”: The Role of the Gángan in Christ Apostolic Church Dublin

Please click on the download icon   to download a pdf of the article.   Rebecca Uberoi is an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student in the School of Music, University College Dublin. She completed her undergraduate degree in music at City University London in 1996, followed by a year studying traditional Sundanese music in West Java. After […]

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CONTRIBUTORS

Gordon Ramsay was born in Ireland and raised in England. He had a varied military and civilian career  before entering Queen’s University.  His (2009) doctoral thesis was based on an ethnography of Ulster marching bands and focused on the relationships between aesthetic pleasure, embodied skills and political commitment as foundations of identity. Desi Wilkinson teaches […]

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Gordon Ramsey

BAND PRACTICE: CLASS, TASTE AND IDENTITY IN ULSTER LOYALIST FLUTE BANDS By Gordon Ramsey     Introduction Parading to fife and drum has been part of working-class culture in Ulster since the 1780s, when the practice was popularised by part-time military forces such as the Volunteers and Yeomanry.[1] The marching flute-band became the dominant musical […]

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