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Rites of Spontaneity

Communality and Subjectivity in Traditional Irish Music Sessions

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

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Rites of Spontaneity

Communality and Subjectivity in Traditional Irish Music Sessions

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

A room in a pub. Some musicians facing each other. They play well-known traditional Irish tunes on flutes, tin whistles, and fiddles. Every musician plays the melodic line adding her own variations and grace notes. Some musicians are just listening; others are cracking jokes. The crowd nearby is composed of friends, occasional patrons, a regular audience, and curious tourists. Some seem not to care; some come closer to listen or perhaps even participate. This is called a “session”. From an anthropological point of view, sessions are not just a musical environment. They are a combination of social interactions, suggesting specific dynamics between community, subjects and cultural items. A scene like that can be found the world over, from Dublin to Boston and Rome. During the last forty years the practices and the appreciation of this particular music, and of this particular setting, have moved decisively from local arenas into the global marketplace. A transnational perspective is, therefore, necessary. As such, this book will appeal to a very wide range of readers, from musicians and aficionados to scholars and students.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527541460

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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Ephemeral Identities in an Italian American Community

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Ephemeral Identities in an Italian American Community

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.

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State University of New York Press

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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Ephemeral Identities in an Italian American Community

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

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Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Ephemeral Identities in an Italian American Community

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

In this lively and accessible book, Augusto Ferraiuolo examines the many religious festivals in the Italian American community of Boston's North End. Using interviews, participant observation, and visual data, Ferraiuolo creates a vivid picture of how, over the course of a summer season, a number of religious festive practices are organized by multiple, overlapping, and, to some extent, competing voluntary organizations. The central argument that emerges is that the community uses these festivals, in part, to help maintain and establish a variety of identities, and that these identities are multistranded, complex, shifting, and negotiated--and thus ephemeral. In addition, Ferraiuolo shows in detail how individuals negotiate and construct identities as Italian Americans, Scaccianesi, Neapolitans, Catholics, and others, within the context of these celebrations. He also introduces a creative and original metaphor for understanding the ways in which selfhood is constructed, arguing that contemporary identities function as hypertext, in the manner of web-based technologies, linking to one another and building upon each other as constantly evolving "technologies of the self.

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1441620575

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Rites of Spontaneity

Communality and Subjectivity in Traditional Irish Music Sessions

By: Augusto Ferraiuolo

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Communality and Subjectivity in Traditional Irish Music Sessions

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Rites of Spontaneity

Rites of Spontaneity

Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End

Rites of Spontaneity

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