Scarecrow Press
Pages: 392
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-8108-5136-8 • Hardback /Audio disc • November 2005 • $151.00 • (£117.00)
Lillis Ó Laoire teaches Irish Folklore, language, and literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His essay "Irish Music 1800-2000" appears in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Ireland.
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction: Tory Island Songs and Singers
Chapter 3 1. Foundations: Toward an Ethnography
Chapter 4 2. Ethnography: Practice and Theory
Chapter 5 3. Lifting and Learning
Chapter 6 4. The Mechanics of the Aesthetic
Chapter 7 5. Performance of Song in Tory
Chapter 8 6. The Emotional Matrix of Dance and Song
Chapter 9 7. The Meaning of Song: An Interpretive Case Study
Chapter 10 8. Song: Play, Performance, and Tragedy
Chapter 11 9. Laughter and Tears
Chapter 12 10. On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean
Part 13 Appendix A: Music Sheet for Song
Part 14 Appendix B: Compact Disc Tracks with Song Lyrics
Part 15 Appendix C: List of Compact Disc Tracks with Timings
Part 16 Bibliography
Part 17 Index
...an important and valuable publication....a work of considerable authority, perceptively written by a scholar and musician was has had a particularly close and enduring personal relationship with his subject....
— Ethnomusicology Forum
...a fascinating and well-written book...
— Folk Music Journal
...brilliant...fascinating....detailed and subtle....
— Irish Times, June 30, 2007