Avvisi e notizie dal Corso di Laurea in Scienze dello spettacolo e produzione multimediale

Nell'ambito dell'insegnamento "Laboratorio di Musica tradizionale irlandese" (docente: Sergio Rampino) del Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze dello Spettacolo e Produzione Multimediale e delle attività del progetto Arqus "Fostering Intercultural Music Exchange: Learning Heritage Through Practice", mercoledì 6 maggio dalle 16:30 alle 17:30 presso il Salone Maldura di Palazzo Maldura, Adrian Scahill della Maynooth University (Ireland) terrà un seminario dal titolo "Trad: The Emergence of a Transnational Music and a Shared Cultural Heritage?". Seguirà, dalle 17:30 alle 18:30, un concerto di musica tradizionale irlandese a cura del relatore e del gruppo Ceol del Concentus Musicus Patavinus.

Trad: The Emergence of a Transnational Music and a Shared Cultural Heritage? For more than fifty years, Irish traditional music has attracted new listeners and practitioners across the globe, initially in Europe, but increasingly across the global north and among high-income industrial countries. The music offered a link to a often-romanticised distinctive cultural heritage with strong links to the past, which was perceived as an authentic living folk tradition. While links to the past, place and landscape remain strong, societal changes in Ireland has prompted a rethinking of the ethno-nationalist basis of the music.  As Tes Slominski has argued recently, the term 'Irish' seems unusual in what Helen Lawlor calls a post-national music scene. Slominski questions:  '… when musicians with no Irish ethnic heritage refer to themselves as “Irish traditional musicians,” does “Irish” apply to the music or the person?' Perhaps the ever-increasing use of 'trad', and the overlaps in style between Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other folk musicians, suggests a different form of transnational traditional music which speaks more of a shared cultural heritage, rather than one which exclusively belongs to musicians on a geographic or ethnic basis.

 

Adrian Scahill is a lecturer in Irish traditional music and ethnomusicology at Maynooth University. He was subject editor for traditional music for The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013), and is a frequent reviewer for the Journal of Music. His recent research has considered topics such as music in the Gaelic Revival, the harp in traditional groups, and the album in Irish traditional music, with articles published in Éire/Ireland, New Hibernia Review, and in several of the Irish Musical Studies volumes. His latest book, Essays on Music, Politics, and Resistance: Sounding Empowerment (2025), was co-edited with Helen Lawlor. An active traditional musician, he established the Music Department’s Traditional Group in 2006. His teaching embraces a wide range of topics, including ethnomusicology, popular music studies, Irish traditional music, and musicology. A piano and button accordion player, he has taught and performed nationally and internationally, and has appeared on BBC and TG4, most recently on Geantraí (2024).