Traditional Music and the Interface with Popular Culture: Continuity and Change

The Chieftains
Danny Boy
Irish Dance
Irish Punk
SOLAS
Traditional Music and Commercialism
Van Morrison

The Chieftains
 

Bibliography:
 

Gearoid O hAllmhurain, A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music. Dublin: The O'Brian Press, 1998.
            A concise overview of the history of the music.  Starting with paragraphs on music and dancing in Medieval Ireland, and continuing through aspects of the modern performance of both the music and dance. Much is written addressing the political climates around the growth of the art. [Bruce Bouck]
 

Fintan Vallely and Charlie Piggot, Blooming Meadows, The World of Irish Traditional Musicians. Dublin: Town House and Country House, 1998.
            Chapters in the book are centered on players and their histories.  Although the book mentions "traditional" musicians, we do see a chapter on Martin Hayes, so we feel we'll be treated to at least some modern viewpoints in the book.  Not so concerned with the distant past as the "Pocket History." [Bruce Bouck]
 

Peter Anick, "Continuing the 'Great Conversation' with Fiddler-Philosopher Matt Glaser, from Fiddler Magazine, Winter 2003 issue.
            A rambling dialog with an American fiddler who has embraced all styles of fiddle, including Irish.  Glaser is now the chair for the Berklee College of Music's string department.  Comments on the viewpoints of a jazz musician and the classical player regarding the state and art of Irish fiddling are especially valuable.  There are many articles published on Fiddler Magazine's website that are helpful.  Many interviews with players that are concerned with the traditional versus contemporary discussion. [Bruce Bouck]
 

Larry Hill, "Randal Bays: Authenticity of Spirit", from Irish Fiddle magazine, collected interviews, date unknown, judging from the text in the article, probably 1998.
            A well known and widely respected player who states "I pick up things pretty immediately by ear."  A voice for the traditional "oral tradition" of passing the music along informally in sessions and impromptu performance.  As with Fiddler Magazine, there are many articles available that interview Irish-oriented players.  It was through one of these interviews that I became aware of one of the original and most important writers and practitioners of Celtic oriented fiddle, the Scotsman Niel Gow, born in 1727. [Bruce Bouck]
 

June Skinner Sawyers, Celtic Music, A Complete Guide.  Publisher's address not stated, Da Capo Press, 2001
            The book's jacket blurb promises an overview "From Ancient Roots to Modern Performers.  The music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Beyond." Much space given to the ancient instruments, the harp and pipes.  Origins of these instruments and the music that was performed on them. Not as much political investigation as "The Pocket History," mentioned above, but there seems to be a revealing investigation of what it means to be Celtic in origin.  In modern times, we often hear "Celtic" and "Irish" as interchangeable terms, but this book speaks of the Irish music as being a derivative stream from ancient Celtic traditions. [Bruce Bouck]
 

Webliography:
 

http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/music/music.htm
The Title of this page is "Minstrels and Music."  While it seems to be a hobbyists collection of musical bits, it has a strong Irish leaning.  There is a short overview of the Chieftain’s career.  Also included are notes about the Irish bands "Clannad" and "The Blind Harper."  There is a nice section featuring notes on various traditional musical instruments like the Celtic Harp and Uillean Pipes. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.nimusic.com/f_history.html
Some opinion and history on the meaning of Irish Traditional Music.  Seems to be a site with intentions of aiding the Irish Music professional; contains articles like "Gigging," and "Making a Demo." [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.aniar.com/pipes.html
A site for Uillean Pipes enthusiasts.  Much good history, and information such as a short piece pointing out the differences between the Irish pipes and the Scottish Bagpipes. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/ArtBagpipeO
Overview.  Good overview of all things relating to Uilleann Pipes, Scottish Bagpipes, and Northumbrian (English) pipes.  Gives a good idea of the antiquity of the instruments.  Some technical/musical stuff, relating to drone notes and tunings of various pipes. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/solas/
Discussion from the Solas members about their views on tradition vs. modernity.  The interview with NPR's Bob Edwards is in audio format (transcripts cost extra).  Some sound clips of the band playing in the NPR studios. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.celticcafe.com/index.shtml
This seems to be a very "Show Biz" oriented site.  Michael Flatley is very much in evidence, and the emphasis is on dance.  Provides links to all things Irish.  Good collection of MP3 files, you can hear a lot of different Irish stuff. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_stations/113/brobdingnagian_bards.html
This is a good place to get streaming web radio, listen to cd samples and buy Celtic artist's product on-line. [Bruce Bouck] 
 

http://www.fiddle.com/
This site made me feel like I hit pay dirt.  Nobody is more outspoken and opinionated than the fiddlers.  Many Irish fiddlers interviewed by the magazine and much of those interviews are excerpted here. [Bruce Bouck] 
 

http://www.irishfiddle.com/
What we said for www.fiddle.com goes double for this site.  The subtitle for this site is "Traditional Fiddle Archive" and there seems to be little room for the young Rockers.  There are a number of testimonials about having parents and grandparents who played... the tradition handed down through generations. [Bruce Bouck] 
 

http://www.celticmusic.com/home.shtml
Got a good interview (but short) with members of the Solas band here.  There is a wealth of musician and music culture stuff.  I downloaded an interview with Noel Hill, the concertina player.  There's the typical quote from Noel Hill, "Well, my parents and grandparents played the concertina on both sides of my family."  You see this kind of statement in interview after interview. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/history/lit.html
Contains Literature, and history, section on Yeats.  I saw that Van Morrison was a Yeats fan, and put one his poems to music, so I was curious about that. [Bruce Bouck] 
 

http://www.pogues.com/
Irish rock-punk. Music is sort of folky-strummy self-conscious angst.  Also some topical political stuff concerning the Irish condition. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://home.arcor.de/yeah/pogues.htm
Discography of Pogues, I had no idea they'd been that busy, I thought there were 3 albums.  Also, we see the band was very active for about 10 years, from 1985.  These Pogues sites also lead us to other Irish bands, and personalities, like Shane MacGowan, the Pogues guitarist? [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.shanemacgowan.de/
Pictures of Shane, smoking, looking worried, the "Haunted Irish Poet" thing. Nice description of the Pogues, "The Pogues - very collectable modern band who have combined Irish roots, new wave attitude and rock´n´roll influences with increasing commercial success". [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Northern_Ireland/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/
A listing of things Irish in the concert and entertainment realm.  Curiously, no mention of the Pogues, at least I didn't see any... but then, they broke up in '95.  There's a Northern Ireland DJ listing.  Some links listed are dead, annoying. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.thenips.com/
This seems to be down, but I include it anyway because this is supposed to be the website for Shane MacGowan's group after the Pogues.  Also, doing a search for the "Nips" we see that Nip is an acronym for "Neural Information Processing," ho ho ho. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/u2.html
U2, of course, the BIG Irish band. Good bio, helped me to appreciate what the band was about.  I'm usually into bands that feature "players" (Clapton, Robben Ford, John Scofield) so I never really took much time with U2.  But when one is attuned to the "Irish thing," U2 makes more sense. [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.showbizireland.com/news/january02/21-u273.shtml
Entertainment news, gossip etc, pretty fluffy... who is Sinead sleeping with now, etc.  But, it gives one a notion of who the Irish bands are, something I was never aware of before.  For instance, I had no idea that the Cranberries were an Irish band, so we go to... [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/cranberries.html
We see here that Dolores O'Riordan is the lead singer for the Cranberries, and is said to be Catholic and has sung in church choirs ever since she was a very young child.  This is telling; the Catholic-ness, and the church choir story is so close to the standard story of the Black Soul Singer in America, just exchange Catholic church choir for "Baptist Southern Gospel." [Bruce Bouck]
 

http://historyoftheworld.com/jean/jean.htm
Fan site for Jean Butler, she's not a musician in the singing-playing sense, she's the famous Riverdance lady.  We just had to visit because she's so beautiful.  This seems to be a low-key site designed to do some sloppy commerce, posters of things Irish (Bono is the art gallery, Doors of Dublin photos), and gossipy stuff about Jean herself.  We learn that, like Lord Michael, she is an American, born in New York. [Bruce Bouck]

Danny Boy
 

Bibliography:

“Danny Boy the Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad”, Malachy McCourt, Running Press
      This book takes a look at the history behind, as the title says, the beloved Irish Ballad, Danny Boy, as well as the origins and meaning of the song. This book is fairly new, published in 2002, the author, Malachy McCourt, was raised in Limerick, Ireland. A discography is listed towards the back of the book. Also, there is a timeline of the history of Ireland. I think this is the only, if not one of a few, books specifically about the song Danny Boy. [Mark Digan]

 “Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American Immigration through Song”, Mick Moloney, Crown Book Publishers

      This book is a collection of myth and history that beautifully contrasts folk art with reality. It talks about how people streamed from Ireland to North America, fleeing famine and economic devastation, seeking prosperity and freedom. They brought with them a strong tradition of oral history and instrumental music that incorporated flute, fiddle and concertina as well as ancient pipes and whistles. There is an accompanying CD too. (review taken from http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_moloney_shamrockshore.html). [Mark Digan]

Standing Stones.com
http://www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html

This site gives in depth history behind the song Danny Boy. It explains where the song originated from, who wrote the song and history of the songwriter, when the song was first heard, the variations of the song, etc. Excellent site! [Mark Digan]

 “The Celtic Collection: Piano solo: 15 traditional Irish folk tunes/arranged in Celtic style”, Phillip Keveren, H. Leonard Publishers

      This is a book of Celtic scores with lyrics printed at the end of the book. It includes Danny Boy (Londonderry air), the Irish Washerwoman, Down by the Salley Gardens and more traditional Irish folk tunes. [Mark Digan]

 “Danny Boy in Sunshine or Shadow” (VHS), NBD Television; writer/associate producer, Julian Lord; executive producer, Geoff Wonfor; producer, Chips Chipperfield; director, Bob Smeaton. PBS Home Video

      This video recording is a documentary covering the history of the song Danny Boy. Modern musicians explain what the song means to them. It has been both sung by many notable singers and arranged in various forms of music. [Mark Digan]

Webliography:

Malachy McCourt.com
http://www.malachymccourt.com/pages/danny-boy.html

This site is dedicated to the author of the book Danny Boy. There are links that lead to the author’s bio, books he’s written, his tour schedule, readers questions, etc. [Mark Digan]

Danny Boy – the mystery solved!
http://www.standingstones.com/dannyboy.html

This site gives in depth history behind the song Danny Boy. Just about every aspect of the song is discussed. Excellent site. [Mark Digan]

All experts.com
http://www.allexperts.com/previousqv.asp?QuestionID=1648021

This site answers the question on whether or not the song Danny Boy has important implications either socially or politically. It also answers why this song is so important to Irish people. Links to other sites, which offer more info are also mentioned. [Mark Digan]

Curled Up.com

http://www.curledup.com/dannyboy.htm

This site gives a great review of the Danny Boy book, written by Malachy McCourt. If you’re looking for a description of this book – this is the site. [Mark Digan]

Brobdingnagian Bards

http://thebards.net/music/

This site offers a plethora of Celtic lyrics along with chords and mp3’s. Links to traditional Celtic music (Irish & Scottish) and Traditional Folk music (English, Irish and even Italian) are offered. [Mark Digan]

All About Irish.com
http://allaboutirish.com/library/music/dannyboy.htm

This site gives a brief history of the song Danny Boy. Lyrics are provided also. There are links to Irish customs and traditions, myths/legends, and interesting places to visit when in Ireland. [Mark Digan]

The Philadelphia City Paper.net
http://citypaper.net/articles/030702/ae.pickd.shtml

This site offers another brief review of the book Danny Boy. Links to other book reviews is offered. [Mark Digan]

Rego Irish Records.com
http://regoirishrecords.com/level.itml/icOid/383

This site has tons of Irish CD’s for sale. Categories range from traditional to contemporary to Celtic rock to ballad and folk, as well as many more. [Mark Digan]

Irish Traditional & Gaelic midi music from Ireland
http://au.geocities.com/merlino2k/irish_music.html

This site has Irish and Gaelic midi music as well as midi sound samples from a number of Irish songs. [Mark Digan]

Danny Boy

www.duke.edu/~del3/dannyboy.htm

This site offers lyrics to the song Danny Boy. Also, a nice discography of ten different variations of the song by different artists is listed. [Mark Digan]

Bristol History Now and Then
http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/bowm3528/mycustompage0014.htm

This site gives some background info of Fred Weatherley, the author of the song Danny Boy. This site also tells how Weatherley went about writing the song and where his inspiration for the song came from. [Mark Digan]

Irish Songs A through F

www.geocities.com/jdcjr/songsi.html

This site lists a number of Irish songs, with titles beginning with A though F. Click on the title of a song to go in to a short introduction and sound sample of the particular tune. Lyrics are offered as well. [Mark Digan]

The Standard Times
www.s-t.com/daily/04-99/04-04-99/e08ae179.htm

This site tells of how the Chieftains give their own flavor to the song Danny Boy. They were unsure, at first, to record the song but after hearing singer Diana Krall, they had to record. [Mark Digan]

The Evangelist

www.evangelist.org/archive/htm/0313tune.htm

This site talks about the documentary on the song Danny Boy, which was filmed in Ireland. It gives a little bit of background history and talks of another documentary film that isn’t related to the Danny Boy documentary. [Mark Digan]

Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America
www.contemplator.com/ireland/

This site offers information about Folk music from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America. A list of songs is given for the appropriate time period – 17th Century through today. Each songs link has background info, lyrics and a sound sample. [Mark Digan]

Standing Stones

www.standingstones.com/danny3.html

This site offers trivia questions, with answers, about the song Danny Boy. Michael Robinson was quoted as the world’s leading expert on the song Danny Boy and he answers a few e-mail questions he has received in a Q and A / trivia format. [Mark Digan]

Parlor Songs
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2002-3/thismonth/featurea.asp

This site has a number of Irish songs with history and biography information, of the writer, of many Irish songs. Sounds samples, in a few different versions, are offered and there are nice, old pictures that go

along with each song too. [Mark Digan]

The Ballad Tree

www.balladtree.com/links/gen_celtic.htm

This site has many links to Celtic music related web sites. Links range from festival listings to resources for Celtic guitar playing to a Ceolas Artist index, which has over 200 Celtic artist websites from traditional to new fusion groups that blend onto the World Music category. It has links to a site dedicated to Irish harp music and Irish radio station web links. [Mark Digan]

Danny Boy / Londonderry Air
www.ulsterloyalist.co.uk/Danny%20Boy%20%20Londonderry%20Air.htm

This site gives some background about the song Danny Boy and Fred Weatherley. It attempts to explain the “true” meaning of the song. A sound sample is offered of Eric Clapton’s instrumental version of Danny Boy. [Mark Digan]

Danny Boy

www.duke.edu/~del3/dannyboy.htm

This site offers lyrics to the song Danny Boy. Also, a nice discography of ten different variations of the song by different artists is listed. [Mark Digan]

Irish References on the Simpson’s
www.snpp.com/guides/irish.refs.html

This site is more for fun. It lists all the references to anything Irish on the long running cartoon, the Simpson’s. [Mark Digan]

Irish Dance
 

Bibliography:

Webliography:

Ireland's Eye.com

http://www.irelandseye.com/ 

This site has a wealth of information, including fun tools, such as The Guide to Irish Names, and research tools, such as the wonderful The History of Irish Dance.  The site also has information for tourism and, currently, a free calendar of Irish Sayings! [Erin Hollis]

Antonio Pacelli: Irish dance

http://www.antoniopacelli.com/

This site is also an incredibly useful tool, both for research and for current dancers and enthusiasts.  There are pages in the site regarding the history of Irish dance and the costumes, as well as current Commission regulations for costumes and hair in competitions. [Erin Hollis]

An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (The Irish Dancing Commission)

http://www.clrg.ie/

This is the official site of the Irish Dancing Commission.  The are links to information regarding the commission's history, as well as links to current competition results, information for teachers and adjudicators, and for the Gaelic League. [Erin Hollis]

Born to Dance

http://www.borntodance.ie/btmp.php?page=History&

This site has a wonderful page that details the history of Irish dance from 400 AD.  There are also links for current dancers with "new costumes," a page where one can order music and videos with which to learn or practice, and a wonderful library of photographs. [Erin Hollis]

RINCE CEOL AMHRÁN at the Irish Arts Center

http://www.inx.net/~mardidom/rchome.htm

This site is from the Rince Ceol Amhran Committee of the Irish Arts Center, a not-for-profit corporation in New York State.  The site has many useful reseach tools, including a history of the center itself, along with a brief history of Irish music, singing, and dance.  One can also learn about the center's current offering, such as classes in Irish language and many Irish musical instruments. [Erin Hollis]

http://www.standingstones.com/traddanc.html

This is one of the that I received from your e-mail and it gave a really thorough list of information on dancing.  It had information on Scottish dancing, Irish dancing, and others. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.standingstones.com/ceili.html

I really liked this website, first of all because it was very interesting.  Secondly because it had some really good stuff that I found interesting. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=popular_culture&OFFID=se1

This was another website that you sent to me, it wasn’t something that I had thought about looking up. Once I looked some more at the topics that were available I realized how valuable it will be.  It’s good because it has full works and good topics. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.cspc.org/ Once again another website sent to me.  It is much like the previous website and will help me find more information. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.music.indiana.edu/~l631/popmusic.html

This website is basically an index that will help me to find information on popular music. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.irishcountrymusic.com/
This website was also sent to me, and just shows information on Irish country music. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.setdance.com The Website explains how to do the different kinds of dances, music played (jigs, reels, polkas) and the number if bars danced to.  It also gives some historical information on dance that I find interesting and that could further along my search. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/

This link had really good information and a lot of good information.  There were a lot of links to other websites and information that would be useful in my search. [Kimberly Zendejas]

http://www.nimusic.com /default.asp

This website was good because it gave some history on Irish traditional music and how that included Irish traditional dance music.  It also has a lot of other good information on the Irish Music Industry. http://www.irishdancing.com This website gave a little bit of history of dance and the music that is used and just history.  It also has a lot of other information on dancing.  [Kimberly Zendejas]

Lord Of The Dance

http://www.lordofthedance.com/html/

Lord of the Dance may not be a traditional type of Irish dance, but it is a more contemporary dance in Ireland or portraying Ireland and that is why this website is handy in my research.  It gives information about the history of LOTD and news.  This will be a great resource for more contemporary Irish dance. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Ceolas

http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

I really chose this website because it gave a pretty good definition of what Celtic music is and gave a list of Celtic musicians from Ireland. It has some information in Celtic dancing and Instruments.  It was also interesting because it had reviews of albums. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Ceili.ie

http://www.ceili.ie/

This website is actually a search engine!  It was really great because your could research music, song, set dancing, Irish dancing, instruments, etc.  It was also possible to research by region. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/interactive/entertainment/irish_np.html

I just choose this website because it had sort of an interesting article on an Irish music store that was put on the Internet.  I thought it to be interesting because it talked about the Chinese and how they liked the Irish music.  I just thought that would be something good to put into the presentation. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill official website
http://www.martinhayes.com/music.htm

This site just had a little excerpt from the liner notes in Martin Hayes’ album. It talked about the change in Irish music and the debate about it changing.  It said he no longer lives in Ireland, but Seattle, but he still had some things to say about the change. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Contemporary Music Centre Ireland

http://www.cmc.ie/

This website seemed like a good resource because all the many topics there was to choose from.  There is news, articles, composers, amongst other topics.  I really liked it for the articles on Irish music and it seemed to have some pretty decent links. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Irish Dance

http://www.irelandseye.com/dance.html

I chose this website because it appeared to have a really good explanation and history of Irish dance. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Irelands Eye.com

http://www.irelandseye.com/

I was linked to this page by another page and found it to be very helpful.  It had information regarding music, culture, history, and travel.  When you clicked on any of these topics it gave more information and smaller topics.  I liked it because it had traditional and history of music. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Music Network

http://www.musicnetwork.ie

I found this website in the list of webliography resources we received in class.  I like it because it had a lot of information to choose from and really great links.  I found a link about libraries and was able to then narrow the search down to history and other music sources. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Irish Punk

Bibliography:
 

Skinner Sawyers, June. Celtic Music: A Complete Guide.  United States of America: First Da Capo Press, 2001.
      This book is going to be a great reference of Irish music.  It has references of Irish music from ancient roots to modern day.  It seems to be well researched and will be very useful in finding information on the transfer from traditional Celtic music to modern day Irish punk. [Lindsay Windler]

MacGowan, Shane, and Victoria Mary Clark.  A Drink With Shane MacGowan.  New York, New York: Grove Press, 2001.
      This book is going to be a great.  Shane MacGowan is a cofounder of the Irish punk band The Pogues.  This biography shows that Shane grew up on a farm in Ireland, and expresses his trials and tribulations with his family. He took his family issues and funneled it in to a great punk band. [Lindsay Windler]

Spitz, Marc, and Brendan Mullen.  We Got The Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
      This book goes through the history of punk music.  It focuses more on West coast punk, but I can still use it for a reference for punk music.  Punk music has incredible roots and a lot of soul, this book explains how the scene came about. [Lindsay Windler]

Bush, Steven.  American Hardcore.  L.A., California: Feral House, 2001.
      This book also focus' on the history of punk music.  It has a play by play design on the motivation and reason why punk music came to be. [Lindsay Windler]

Punk Music in Ireland. Ed. Northern Irish Music Commission. Ireland
www.nimusic.com/f_history4.html
      This web site is incredible.  They have some great information on Ireland and the history of Irish music.  The punk section has some information on how exactly punk music came about in Ireland. [Lindsay Windler]

Webliography:

www.shitenonions.com

This web site is great it contains a database of all Irish punk bands.  It lists interviews and upcoming tours with Irelands best punk bands.  This site even contains news on what is going on with Irish punk bands. [Lindsay Windler]

www.truepunk.com

This site offers articles on all punk bands around the world.  It also includes interviews, and up-coming tour dates.  This site also offers a bunch of other great links. [Lindsay Windler]

www.worldwidepunk.com

This site has the best link section ever.  There is a variety of topics and a huge link database for all of the topics.  This site has pretty much everything that you need to know about punk music. [Lindsay Windler]

www.thumped.com

This site has samples to download from many Irish punk bands.  Some bios and tour dates with Irelands punk bands.  This site even offers news on what’s going on with these artists. [Lindsay Windler]

www.//mixtwitch.golfin.html

This is the site for a great Irish ska/punk band.  It includes artist bios, news, tour dates and all the other latest info on mixtwitch.  The best part is it shows what instruments each player uses and what brand it is. [Lindsay Windler]

www.frictionmagazine.com/song/interviews/flogging_molly.asp

This site has an incredible interview with David King from Flogging Molly.  The talk about there Irish roots and the struggles that they have had to endure as a country.  They also speak about there band and how it all came together. [Lindsay Windler]

www.freshangles.com

This web site has an incredible article on Flogging Molly.  They speak about there upcoming CD release and how it compares to there others. [Lindsay Windler]

www.rockzone.com/interviews/floggingmolly.shtml

This site has a great interview with Dennis Casey, Flogging Molly's electric guitar player.  It talks about where his musical influence came from and the bands latest information. [Lindsay Windler]

www.kaffeinebuzz.com

This web site has an awesome article on Flogging Molly.  It talks about the troubles with touring across country lines and the hard times that Ireland has had recently. [Lindsay Windler]

www.kaos2000.net/interviews/dropkick99.html

This site contains a great interview with The Dropkick Murphy’s new lead singer.  It was interesting to me because for a band to replace the lead singer is quite a feat.  [Lindsay Windler]

www.groups.yahoo:com/group/floggingmolly2

This site has a great article on Flogging Molly.  It also contains many different punk links. It even offers a fan club membership. [Lindsay Windler]

www.iomusic.com

This site is great.  It has different links for punk band, magazines and almost everything else punk you could be looking for.  It separates the links into different genres. [Lindsay Windler]

www.neobee.net

This site includes many band reviews and articles.  They have some great interviews and even a online radio show.  They also offer many links. [Lindsay Windler]

www.copseatdonuts.free.yellow.com

This is a U.K. punk magazine. They offer links to homepages(of artists) and other punk links.  They also include articles and interviews with U.K. punk bands. [Lindsay Windler]

www.geocities.com/cpeople.geo

This site includes great articles on punk culture.  It also has a message board on punk issues around the world. They also offer many different punk links. [Lindsay Windler]

www.members.tripod.com
This site offers many artist reviews.  IT also covers and reviews many of the band on Warped Tour.  They also have several interviews. [Lindsay Windler]
 

www.punkska.osiriscomm.com

This web site has some incredible artist and band reviews.  They have some political articles.  They also have a band of the month review. [Lindsay Windler]

www.member.aol.com/desperatem1/maw.html

This site has some great punk rock pictures.  They also include many good links.  They have a few good punk article and interviews. [Lindsay Windler]

www.geocities.com/dietsociety/maw.html

This site has great articles on the punk view point.  It includes article on the punk political view points. And has, band reviews. [Lindsay Windler]

www.greenmanreview.com/london.punk.shane.magowan.html

This site has a great article.  It is on Shane MacGowan who was in the Pouges.  It is a summary of his life. [Lindsay Windler]

Traditional Music and Commercialism
 

Bibliography:

Bunting, Edward The Ancient Music of Ireland. Boston: Crescendo Publications. Dublin: Walton's Piano and Musical Instrument Galleries. 1969.

      This includes collections of ancient Irish music as well as Bunting's dissertation on Egyptian, British and Irish harps, and notes on ancient Irish music and harpers. [Amanda Hicks]

Gould, Jo Jo.  "The Republic of Ireland: A Music Industry Overview."  _Music Business Journal_. Buckinghamshire, Apr '02.

      I really couldn't ask for a better article, this is really right up my alley.  As a professor of Music Industry Management and editor of this publication, I feel Jo Jo Gould is a wonderful and reliable reference. [Andy Giesen]

Hot Press.  (Dublin, 1977-).

      This looks like Ireland's answer to Rolling Stone or Spin, and appears to provide good information in a modern format.  Looks like its good coverage of a lot of today's artists, even some from yesterday that are still around. [Andy Giesen]
 

Irish Music.  (Dublin, 1995-).

      This will be a good source for contemporary Irish musical acts, as well as finding out how their releases are doing.  This magazine appears to concentrate on artists not only in Ireland and in the U.S., but England, Canada, and elsewhere as well. [Andy Giesen]
 

Irish Times.  (Dublin, 1859-).

      This will be great because it'll have the most current information available about Irish music and the industry.  Considering its been around for almost 150 years, Irish Times has enough history to speak to its credibility and usefulness. [Andy Giesen]

Journal of Music in Ireland.  (Bray, 2000-).

      I know this will be a useful source because its a journal and seems to dig relatively deep on subject matter.  Already I see a little teaser about Desi Wilkinson discussing Irish traditional and folk music in Ireland, music selling Ireland, and Ireland discussing music. [Andy Giesen]

Vallely, Finlan.  The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. New York: New York University Press. 1999.

      This is an excellent source for various aspects of traditional music.  I will be using it to gather information about various components of traditional music to compare and contrast with Solas' music. [Amanda Hicks]

Fintan Vallely. The Companion To Irish Traditional Music. New York: 1999

      This book just has a lot of helpful information on many different topics in Irish Music and will definitely be a good tool for generating more info.  This book is in basic dictionary form, with many little topics that will help to propel me further in my search for information. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Edited by David Cooper. The Petrie Collection of the Ancient of Ireland. Ireland: 2002

      The Petrie Collection… provides me with some background information on the style of writing of the songwriters in Ireland.  There are many types of songs that are provided in the book and allow me to see what kinds of topics are written about in Ireland.  It’s most interesting because it gives a little explanation about each song. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Cowdery, James R.  The Melodic Tradition of Ireland. Ohio:1990

      This book doesn’t give a hole lot of information on the traditions of Irish music, but it does offer some data on the instruments that are usually played. There is also some other background history of Irish music that would be helpful in creating a good presentation. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Edited; Gillen, Gerard; White, Harry.  Music and the Church. Dublin: 1993

      What better place to start with history than in the church.  This book just gives a little bit of history on church music of Ireland, which should be pretty interesting. It also has a few traditional Irish Church music written in the book.  Now I just need to find some books that give information on the change of Irish music. [Kimberly Zendejas]

Webliography:

Contemporary Irish Music Center

http://www.cmc.ie

Good page for information on current Irish artists as well as an archive of free music.  Also has a good links page and a decent list of composers. [Andy Giesen]

Irish World Music Centre

http://www.ul.ie/~iwmc/

Even though it's a page for a college in Ireland, it still has a good page of links to look for more information.  I don't think it'll be the most beneficial sit possible, but it definitely should help. [Andy Giesen]

Northern Irish Music Industry Commission
ttp://www.nimusic.com/default.asp

This will be a very resourceful site for me, as it relays news and information about the music industry in Northern Ireland.  This has a very heavy slant towards the industry and should really give me some good information as current facts and figures regarding the commercial state of traditional Irish music. [Andy Giesen]

The O'Neill Brothers

http://www.shamrocknroll.com

Brothers from a small town in Minnesota, Tim and Ryan O'Neill record and sell piano music almost entirely by themselves, including a cd of Irish melodies called "The Meeting of the Waters," including Tóg go bog é and many others.  They would be a good example to use in my presentation as one end of the spectrum. [Andy Giesen]

Tara Music

http://www.taramusic.com

Has a catalog of 25 years' worth of traditional Irish music, as well as sample mp3s to download.  Also has liner notes from Tara music releases, as well as biographies on their artists.  This may be useful to get some background information on some current Irish traditional musicians. [Andy Giesen]

The Irish Traditional Music Archive http://www.itma.ie/home/itmae1.htm

This appears to be a phenomenal page, as a few good links to industry information are available.  But it's one of those stunt-devil pages that give a little background information on who they are and what they do with some links to other good sources, but kind of light on its resourcefulness. [Andy Giesen]

Music Network

http://www.musicnetwork.ie

I'm getting the impression that this is an organization developed to help further traditional and jazz Irish music.  This will be good because it's geared toward administrators and insiders in the music industry.  There's also a solid archive for news stories from 2001 and 2002. [Andy Giesen]

Music Board of Ireland
http://www.musicboardofireland.ie/terms_of_reference.htm

Pretty weak page.  It's another that tells who they are and what they do, with not a lot of meaty information.  I could probably use a little of the information given as an example of how current Irish music is being supported. [Andy Giesen]

Browse Ireland

http://www.browseireland.com/Music/Other/

There are all kinds of stories and articles included on this page regarding the current Irish music scene.  A lot of worthless stories are on here, but there are a few good ones about new bands breaking out and about the industry. [Andy Giesen]

Irish Recorded Music Association

http://www.irma.ie/index2.htm

I'm thinking this would be like Ireland's version of the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America.  It's an association set up by the record companies, primarily to function as a watchdog.  There are some good links that are leading me to some new information still. [Andy Giesen]

Irish Music Rights Organization

http://www.imro.ie/

This organization pretty much deals with licensing and the collection and distribution of royalties.  I think this page will be good for information on the state of Irish music and the Irish music industry. [Andy Giesen]

SOLAS

Bibliography:

Clancy, Tom. Irish Music, "Winifred's Magical, Musical, Mystery, Tour." Nov. 2002.

      An article discussing the new solo album of Solas' violinist. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Nelligan, Tom.  Dirty Linen, "Bring the Light." #97, December 2001/Jan 2002.

      This article discuss the various components of the band's music, their origination, and the background of the members. [Amanda Hicks]
 

O'Rogan, John Irish Music, "Solas." August 1996.

      An article written about the band when it was relatively new.  Includes statements from various members of the band about how they began. [Amanda Hicks]

Webliography:

Solas

www.solasmusic.com

Unfortunately, this is a highly commercial site that does not offer very much substantive information regarding the band.  However, I am including it simply because it is the bands official web site.  The site includes the band's tour schedule, photos, short bios of the members, a message board that mostly includes fans saying "This is great stuff!" but not much more.  The next link was the recommendation of where to find more stuff on the band. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Seamus Egan
www.seamusegan.com

This is the web site of Seamus Egan, one of Solas' founders.  It includes sound bites from Seamus' new solo album as well as links for other musicians and Aniar Records. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Dirty Linen

www.dirtynelson.com/linen/feature/64egan.html

This site gives the text to an article written in Dirty Linen about Seamus Egan's development as a musician.  It is very helpful in illuminating how musical training in Ireland works as well as what where some of the influences in Seamus' musical development. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Artist Direct

www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,42826,00.html?artist=Seamus+Egan

This site offers sound bites from various CD's.  This particular page has links to information about various musicians of all sorts that Seamus has performed with or been influenced by.  [Amanda Hicks]
 

Celtic Cafe

wwwinfluencede.com/hitchner/seamus.htm

This page gives a reprint of  ann article published in The Wall Street Journal and supplies some useful direct quotes from Seamus about some of his collaborative works and how he is influenced by music outside of traditional music. Celtic cafe also has many links to articles about many popular Irish musicians. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Karan Casey

www.karancasey.com

This is former Solas vocalist Karan Casey's web site.  Her site includes a not-especially-informative biography, lyrics to her albums, and links to other Irish music sites. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Folk Lore Productions

www.folkloreproductions.com

This site provides information on many different folk and traditional musicians from around the world.  It includes a bio of Karan Casey that discusses her musical training and influences. [Amanda Hicks]
 

The world Wide web site of George E. Graham

http://georgegraham.com/reviews/kcasey.html

On this page George Graham gives a very thoughtful and thorough review of Casey's Album The Winds Begin to Sing, discussing characteristics of her music as well as specific jazz musicians that she has been influenced by. [Amanda Hicks]
 

John Doyle

www.johndolyemusic.com

This site is John Doyle's home page.  It includes a list of gigs, a bio highlighting his musical influences and history, and links to other musician’s sites as well as such sources for traditional music as Irish Music magazine. [Amanda Hicks]

Irish Fiddle

www.irishfiddle.com/winnie_horan_interview.html

The Irish Fiddle site includes sound bites of Irish fiddle players, articles about various regional styles from prominent fiddlers, and interviews with fiddlers.  This particular page has an interview with Solas' fiddler Winnie Horan in which she discusses her musical history and influences. [Amanda Hicks]

Standing Stones
www.standingsones.com/wclancy.html
Standing stones contains copious amounts of information on traditional Irish music.  This particular page contains an interview with Willy Clancy on traditional Irish music. I include it because it gives insight both to traditional music. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Chattanooga Times Free Press
www.timesfreepress.com/2002/jul/26jul02/websolas.html
This is a review of The Edge of Silence.  It contains quotes from Seamus on the band's decision to record the album. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Rosebuds
www.rosebudsus.cm/solas/EdgeOfSilince.html
This is another review of The Edge of Silence.  It contains more quotes from Seamus about some of the variations on songs performed by previous artists. [Amanda Hicks]
 

The Wayfaring Strangers
www.thewayfaringstranges.com/new/
This page contains a review of a concert at which both The Wayfaring Strangers and Solas performed.  It is refreshing because the refer to "glossy production." (Why don't critics criticize more often?) [Amanda Hicks]
 

FATEA
www.fatea.freeserve.co.uk/music/solas.htm
This page contains an interview with Deirdre and Winifred, Which is nice because Seamus is usually the mouthpiece for the band.  In this interview they discuss who writes the music, and how the band decides what is going to be recorded, as well as other interesting topics. [Amanda Hicks]
 

The Green Man Review
www.greenmanreview.com
This site has several reviews of Solas' music.  the reviews are helpful because they tend to discuss stylistic elements of the music, as well as origins of the songs. [Amanda Hicks]
 

National Public Radio
www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/solas/
This page contains information on Solas' appearance on NPR March 15, 2002.  It includes a review that discusses the band's decision to work with rock producer Neil Dorfsman.  It also had episodes of the band's performance on the show. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Downpatrick Folk Music Club
http://downfolk.tripod.com/solas.htm
This is a review of The Words That Remain.  It is helpful because it points out stylistic elements of the specific sets as well the origin for some. [Amanda Hicks]

IMN world
www.imnworld.com/solas.html
This is another review of The Words That Remain.  It lists appearances the band has made, has quotes from Seamus regarding the bands success, and also provides insight into the stylistic elements of the songs on the album. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Berkshire Eagle
www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/concerts/solas.html
This page also has a helpful review but this time of a concert given in Mass. in 1997.  This review discusses the rack and jazz elements that Solas displayed in their performance. [Amanda Hicks]
 

Van Morrison

Bibliography:
 

O’connor, Nuala.  Bringing it all back home; the influence of Irish music at home and overseas.  Merlin Publishing; 2nd edition 2001.
            This book offers good history and personal interviews.  It goes into analysis of musical techniques and gives information about how Irish music has emigrated around and back again. [Isaac Callen]

Prendergast, Mark J. The Isle of Noises. St. Martin's Press; 1990.
            This book provides information about the show bands in Irland and also the new music that has come out of there such as U2.  This book also tells some about the mixture of old celtic and Punk rock. [Isaac Callen]

Hinton, Brian.  Celtic Crossroads – The art of Van Morrison. Music Sales Corp:1998. 

            This book offers a biography of Van Morrison, including his ethnic roots.  The book relates Morrison’s creativity to cultural aspects. [Isaac Callen]

Farley, Chrispher Joh.  McLaughlin, Lisa.  Hybridized and National Music: The Case of Irish Rock Music.  Time Vol. 141 issue 14, P 53, 1p, 1c.  1993.
            This article offers information about Irish history in many aspects, but will be usefull in how it relates Irsih music to ethnicity and how that came about.  It also looks at where Irish music came from. [Isaac Callen]

O’Toole, Finton.   Ireland’s Cultural Revolution.  Europe.  1994 N335, p16(3).

            This article provides more information about the whole of Irish culture and how it has been affected by various art forms such as music, film making and writing.  The Irish musicians in this document include U2 and the Cranberries. [Isaac Callen]

Dougherty, Steve.  Irish Uprising.  People Weekly, v40,n5,p53(2).  1993.
            This source looks closely at a specific band called Black 47.  They are a band that play in Ney York and in the source they include information about their influences of Irish tradition, history and instrument use. [Isaac Callen]

Prendergast, Mark J. Irish Rock: roots, personalities, directions. O'Brien Press.  1987.  [Isaac Callen]

Clayton-Lea, Tony. Taylor, Richie. Irish Rock-where It’s Come from - where Its at - where its going. 

Trans-Atlantic Pubns Inc, 1992. [Isaac Callen]

Webliography:

Broadcast Music, Inc.
http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/features/200011/vmorrison.asp
This site has biographical  information as well search capabilities to research other artist.  The information given is fairly general. The site gives a summary of Van Morrison¹s influence by Irish music. [Isaac Callen]

Jam Shobiz
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsM/morrison_van.html
This site has articles that include biographical information.  There are reviews of specific albums, and articles summarizing Van Morrison¹s life. [Isaac Callen]

Irish Music Forever
http://www.azirishmusic.com/irishmusicforever/Forever30.htm
This site includes information about Van Morrison¹s history, musical influences, and musical works.  The site had information about other Irish rock musicians and there  are links to his main page. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison
http://alumni.imsa.edu/~paulb/irish/music/vanmorrison.html
There is a photo of Van Morrison at this site and a short biography.  There are links to rolling stone magazine and links to music samples. [Isaac Callen]

Arts Council
http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/useful/musicw.htm
This is a link site were information about all types of Irish music can be accessed.  There are links to everything from schools in Ireland to DJs and sound creators. [Isaac Callen]

Shamrockshop
http://www.shamrockshop.com/Information/Music/musicians.htm
This link gives biographical data and links Irish venues, information about the country dancing, and other cultural aspects. [Isaac Callen]

RollingStone
www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=25121
This provides information about Morrison¹s Irish influences and biographical information.  It also includes critiques of albums that Morrison has put out. [Isaac Callen]

Irish Communications review
www.icr.dit.ie/volume7/articles/article02.html
This is a great review of many Irish music styles and the bands that create them.  This article goes through the eclecticism and the influences past Irish musicians have had on musicians of this generation, such as beck. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison
http://historyoftheworld.com/music/van/van.htm
This is a great website that includes a photo gallery, biographical history, chat links and one of the more comprehensive link pages available for Van Morrison. [Isaac Callen]

The Music Beat
http://musicbeat.searchbeat.com/artists/van-morrison.htm
This website is directly a discography for Van Morrison and contains a short Biography.  More useful aspects are the links at the bottom that include access to tablature for musicians.  The links include interviews, reviews and articles on the artist. [Isaac Callen]

VH1

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/morrison_van/bio.jhtml

This website gives biographical information and is very thorough about including artists that have been involved with Morrison's career.  This site also includes links for books, and videos on Morrison, as well as links to the artists mentioned. [Isaac Callen]

Wilson and Allroys

http://www.warr.org/vanmorrison.html

This site offers a short description of Van Morrison and his music style.  It offers links to artists that he has been influenced by and reviews all his records. [Isaac Callen]

1989 Magazine Interview http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1989august.html

This is interview with Van Morrison was performed by spike Milligan.  It includes some random talk about whom he has played with and which artists he is familiar with and gets into some of the music he had recently put out. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison – the theater

http://www.comp-wiz.com/van/

This is a site that provides real player supported video and audio samples of many of Morrison's pieces of work.  There are also pictures of Morrison on the first page. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison Interview
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/morrison2.html

This is an interview that took place in 1971 and was performed by Rick McGrath.  This interview explores topics that include recording techniques and the affects the audience has on the creative end. [Isaac Callen]

The Story of Them

http://www.vintagerock.com/them.html
This is a site that talks about the band Morrison started with.  It goes through the bands that were present and speaks a little about the music they released while together. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison With the Monarchs http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/miscellaneous/themchrono.html

This website is chronology of Morrison from when he bought his first guitar to 1969 and the record deals he was involved with then. [Isaac Callen]

Virgin Records

http://www.virginrecords.com/vanmorrison/

This site talks about Morrison’s relationship to Gail Lewis and has biographical information as well as links to guitar tablature and music and video samples.  Windows media supported. [Isaac Callen]

Ink19
www.ink19.com/issues_F/99_02/wet_ink/columns/in_perspective_nf.html

This is an overview of Morrison’s music from when he played with them to the stuff he did with the Chieftains.  It is obviously written by a fan, but there are some attempts to be non-biased in this overview. [Isaac Callen]

Van Morrison Lyrics
http://www.hmg.hu/rock/classic/van_morrison_lyrics.htm
This is a foreign based website that has the lyrics to many of Morrison’s lyrics.  This is the poetry without the music.  A good source for seeing what Morrison was saying. [Isaac Callen]