August/September 2010
1 August 2010
In the Irish-speaking areas of Ireland, visitors are sometimes frustrated because they speak Irish to locals and are responded to in English. It doesn’t take long for them to give up altogether, deciding that the language is actually truly dead in the...
1 August 2010
Funding for the arts is essential, but without the right approach it can blunt artists’ entrepreneurial skills, writes Toner Quinn
1 August 2010
Across folk, classical, pop and exploratory music, the sense of exile from Eden is key to the progress of British music in the twentieth century, writes Rob Young.
1 August 2010
A rootless generation needs an updated idea of folk music, by Benedict Schlepper-Connolly
1 August 2010
Commissioned to compose a work in response to 9/11, John Adams confronted the question: can modern classical music still be the transcendental force we need it to be? by Barra Ó Séaghdha
1 August 2010
Peter Rosser finds how American folk music revivals have been bound to the country’s social history
1 August 2010
In an age when music is available anywhere, anytime, where do you find the underground, and what defines it?
1 August 2010
Patrick Pearse’s classic short story about a sean-nós singer who walks to Dublin could never happen today – or could it? by Breandán Ó hEaghra
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