Locating the centre: Irish traditional music and re-traditionalisation at the Willie Clancy Summer School
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2013-05-01Author
Commins, Verena
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Commins, Verena. (2013). Locating the centre: Irish traditional music and re-traditionalisation at the Willie Clancy Summer School. In Méabh Ní Fhuartháin & David Doyle (Eds.), Ordinary Irish life: Music, sport and culture (pp. 114-127). Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
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Abstract
The Willie Clancy Summer School is the foremost school for Irish traditional
music transmission and practice in the annual Irish traditional music calendar.
!e particular success of the Willie Clancy Week (as it is more commonly referred
to) is the result of a synergy of factors, the reverberations of which resonate
in a dialectical exchange with the wider community of Irish traditional music
practice. In this essay, two inter-related factors which contribute signi"cantly
to the production of cultural authority at the school are considered: Firstly,
transmission, and the re-traditionalisation of the processes of transmission at
the school and secondly, peripherality and how the location of the school, in the
west of Ireland, is a constitutive element in legitimating this re-traditionalising
process.