Irish Session at the Starry Plough, Berkeley, CA

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: This collection of interviews and music primarily focuses on the Irish session and its history, significance, and practice in the Bay Area, particularly at the Starry Plough in Berkeley, CA. Also discussed is Irish sessions at The Plough and Star in San Francisco, trad music in general in the Bay Area, the dance world and its connection with the trad world, the Irish, world, and so on. This particular ethnography focuses on how Charles Keil's concept of participatory discrepancy does or does not describe the cultural fascination of the session with melody and melodic perfection. My collaborators are Makulumy Alexander-Hills, a Stanford student and contraband pianist, as well as John Sherry and Peter Persoffs, locals of the Bay Area and long-time contributors to the sessions of the two restaurants in focus.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Date created	June 2, 2014

Subject	Plough and Stars
Subject	Starry Plough
Subject	Irish session
Subject	trad
Subject	Cape Breton
Subject	Scottish music
Subject	Irish music
Subject	feis
Subject	Irish dance
Subject	trad dance
Subject	contradance
Subject	improvisation
Subject	Music Ethnography of the Bay Area
Subject	Music 147
Subject	Charles Keil
Subject	participatory discrepancy
Subject	politics of music
Subject	politics of Irish music
Genre	Sound

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sm376rt1209

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Music Ethnography of the Bay Area Collection - ARS.0152

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