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This paper explores the interaction of the embodied practices of musicking and discourse in bringing forth identity and creating community in contexts of marching, playing, singing, dancing and bantering during the visit of Sir George... more
This paper explores the interaction of the embodied practices of musicking and discourse in bringing forth identity and creating community in contexts of marching, playing, singing, dancing and bantering during the visit of Sir George White Memorial Flute Band from Broughshane, County Antrim, to an Orange lodge in the Ayrshire mining village of New Cumnock, on the occasion of the annual celebration of the Battle of the Boyne. The paper shows that communal embodied experiences of musicking can both define and transcend boundaries whilst bringing forth communal identities, and also highlights the strategic uses of discourse to account for embodied ways of being in the world, and to define and redefine the nature of the community being produced. In Reily, Suzel & Katherine Brucher. 2013. Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making. Ashgate: Farnham. The paper draws on work by Victor and Edith Turner to explore the long term political effects of transitory but powerful emotional experiences in bonding band members to each other and to the broader social world of working-class loyalism within which these experiences are brought forth.
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Review of Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell & Thomas Fazi, London: Pluto Press, 2017.
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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... more
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 ensemble in ...
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Surrey (UK), Burlington, VT (USA): Ashgate. ISBN 9780754667780. 14 b&w illustrations, 3 music examples, 254 pp. $114.95 (hardback) Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, Volume 9 2012, 81–83
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The loyalist working-class population in Ulster nourishes a marching band tradition which involves extraordinary levels of musical participation Over 700 bands currently practice within the six counties of Northern Ireland 1 and they... more
The loyalist working-class population in Ulster nourishes a marching band tradition which involves extraordinary levels of musical participation Over 700 bands currently practice within the six counties of Northern Ireland 1 and they perform at band parades in towns and villages throughout the province every Friday, Saturday and sometimes Wednesday evening from April to October, and at indoor events in community halls and nightclubs throughout the winter, as well as in the better known but much less frequent Orange parades which have been part of popular culture in Ulster since the 18 th century.
Book Review of Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell & Thomas Fazi. Pluto: London.
Published in Journal of Extreme Anthropology. 2018. Vol. 2 No. 2.
Published in Journal of Extreme Anthropology. 2018. Vol. 2 No. 2.
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In Conlin, Michael & Lee Joliffe (eds) 2017. Automobile Heritage and Tourism. Routledge: Abingdon. The building of the DeLorean factory in Belfast during a period of intense communal conflict, the production of the distinctive... more
In Conlin, Michael & Lee Joliffe (eds) 2017. Automobile Heritage and Tourism. Routledge: Abingdon.
The building of the DeLorean factory in Belfast during a period of intense communal conflict, the production of the distinctive gull-winged DMC-12 by a mixed Protestant and Catholic workforce in the violent west of the city, the ultimate collapse of the project and arrest of John DeLorean on drugs charges, and the revival of the car as a global icon by the Hollywood movie, Back to the Future, is a dramatic story. However, today's tourist in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is unlikely to hear that story told.
Drawing on documentary sources, a survey of DeLorean owners worldwide, and interviews with DeLorean enthusiasts, tourist industry representatives and former DeLorean workers, this chapter considers the significance of the DeLorean as part of Belfast's history and heritage, exploring the part the DeLorean story currently plays in Belfast's tourism product, and considering to what extent further development may be possible.
The building of the DeLorean factory in Belfast during a period of intense communal conflict, the production of the distinctive gull-winged DMC-12 by a mixed Protestant and Catholic workforce in the violent west of the city, the ultimate collapse of the project and arrest of John DeLorean on drugs charges, and the revival of the car as a global icon by the Hollywood movie, Back to the Future, is a dramatic story. However, today's tourist in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is unlikely to hear that story told.
Drawing on documentary sources, a survey of DeLorean owners worldwide, and interviews with DeLorean enthusiasts, tourist industry representatives and former DeLorean workers, this chapter considers the significance of the DeLorean as part of Belfast's history and heritage, exploring the part the DeLorean story currently plays in Belfast's tourism product, and considering to what extent further development may be possible.
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This paper explores the interaction of the embodied practices of musicking and discourse in bringing forth identity and creating community in contexts of marching, playing, singing, dancing and bantering during the visit of Sir George... more
This paper explores the interaction of the embodied practices of musicking and discourse in bringing forth identity and creating community in contexts of marching, playing, singing, dancing and bantering during the visit of Sir George White Memorial Flute Band from Broughshane, County Antrim, to an Orange lodge in the Ayrshire mining village of New Cumnock, on the occasion of the annual celebration of the Battle of the Boyne.
The paper shows that communal embodied experiences of musicking can both define and transcend boundaries whilst bringing forth communal identities, and also highlights the strategic uses of discourse to account for embodied ways of being in the world, and to define and redefine the nature of the community being produced.
In Reily, Suzel & Katherine Brucher. 2013. Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making. Ashgate: Farnham.
The paper draws on work by Victor and Edith Turner to explore the long term political effects of transitory but powerful emotional experiences in bonding band members to each other and to the broader social world of working-class loyalism within which these experiences are brought forth.
The paper shows that communal embodied experiences of musicking can both define and transcend boundaries whilst bringing forth communal identities, and also highlights the strategic uses of discourse to account for embodied ways of being in the world, and to define and redefine the nature of the community being produced.
In Reily, Suzel & Katherine Brucher. 2013. Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music Making. Ashgate: Farnham.
The paper draws on work by Victor and Edith Turner to explore the long term political effects of transitory but powerful emotional experiences in bonding band members to each other and to the broader social world of working-class loyalism within which these experiences are brought forth.
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Ulster marching bands constitute an extraordinarily vibrant, but academically little known musical tradition. Hundreds of bands participate in parades every weekend throughout the summer, and concerts and contests in the wintertime. The... more
Ulster marching bands constitute an extraordinarily vibrant, but academically little known musical tradition. Hundreds of bands participate in parades every weekend throughout the summer, and concerts and contests in the wintertime. The tradition includes internationally competitive Pipe Bands, brass and ‘part-music’ flute bands whose efforts are largely devoted to classical music, accordion and military styled ‘melody’ flute bands, and the distinctive ‘blood and thunder’ flute bands whose exuberant performances constitute an unique fusion of the militaristic with the carnivalesque.
This paper will describe the social, musical and political history that brought these diverse styles of music-making into existence, before using ethnographic studies of flute bands from three different genres to examine the different ways that class, ethnicity and aesthetics interact to produce the tastes, practices and embodied identities which define and sustain these bands.
This paper will describe the social, musical and political history that brought these diverse styles of music-making into existence, before using ethnographic studies of flute bands from three different genres to examine the different ways that class, ethnicity and aesthetics interact to produce the tastes, practices and embodied identities which define and sustain these bands.
“Website Reviews: ‘The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Online Indexes’ produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society; ‘Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries’ produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society; ‘The Irish Traditional Music Archive’ produced by the Irish Traditional Music Archive”more
'Killaloe' is a favourite tune amongst Ulster loyalist marching bands, surpassing even iconic ballads such as 'The Sash' ' in popularity. The origins of the tune have little connection to loyalism as it was named after a village in County... more
'Killaloe' is a favourite tune amongst Ulster loyalist marching bands, surpassing even iconic ballads such as 'The Sash' ' in popularity. The origins of the tune have little connection to loyalism as it was named after a village in County Clare. The tune acquired military associations when adopted as a march by the Connaught Rangers, eventually becoming the regimental march of the Ulster Defence Regiment, through whose part-time forces it became familiar to many loyalists during 'the troubles'.
Military associations are insufficient to explain the tune's continuing popularity amongst a generation who have grown up during the peace process and have little memory of the troubles and no experience of military service.
The tune is unusual as an enaction of communal identity in that it has no words. The tune does offer opportunities for bodily participation, most significantly through shouting at a climactic point in the tune, and it is this opportunity for coordinated action that I suggest is central to the tune's continued popularity. The fact that embodied participation is more important than symbolic associations suggests that loyalism is less a discursive ideology than an experiental community enacted and reproduced largely by emotional bonding brought forth in musical practice.
Military associations are insufficient to explain the tune's continuing popularity amongst a generation who have grown up during the peace process and have little memory of the troubles and no experience of military service.
The tune is unusual as an enaction of communal identity in that it has no words. The tune does offer opportunities for bodily participation, most significantly through shouting at a climactic point in the tune, and it is this opportunity for coordinated action that I suggest is central to the tune's continued popularity. The fact that embodied participation is more important than symbolic associations suggests that loyalism is less a discursive ideology than an experiental community enacted and reproduced largely by emotional bonding brought forth in musical practice.