Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Music and also the College Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. He has won the Leverhulme Trust award, the Curl Lectureship from London's Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residential fellowship from the Franke Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago.Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.

...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking—strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of "innovation" into "tradition."

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the SoulChapter 3 2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New NationalismChapter 4 3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley IrishChapter 5 4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the ComposerChapter 6 5 Tradition and the Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic PhenomenonChapter 7 6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh AtlanticChapter 8 7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern AgeChapter 9 8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in BrittanyChapter 10 9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in ScotlandChapter 11 10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than ThouChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Contributors

Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Music and also the College Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. He has won the Leverhulme Trust award, the Curl Lectureship from London's Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residential fellowship from the Franke Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago.Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.

...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking—strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of "innovation" into "tradition."

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the SoulChapter 3 2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New NationalismChapter 4 3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley IrishChapter 5 4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the ComposerChapter 6 5 Tradition and the Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic PhenomenonChapter 7 6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh AtlanticChapter 8 7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern AgeChapter 9 8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in BrittanyChapter 10 9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in ScotlandChapter 11 10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than ThouChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Contributors

Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Music and also the College Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. He has won the Leverhulme Trust award, the Curl Lectureship from London's Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellowship from the Howard Foundation, and a residential fellowship from the Franke Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago.Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkam Professor of Music and Jewish Studies, and of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also chair of Jewish Studies. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics, from folk and popular music in Europe and North America, music and religion, the Middle East, and the intersections of music with nationalism and racism. Among his most recent publications are World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz (with Otto Holzapfel, 2001), and Music and the Racial Imagination (coedited with Ronald Radano, 2000). The Music of European Nationalism: Political Change and Modern History is forthcoming.

...the collection is necessary for academic consideration of the Celtic genre and is consequently thought-provoking—strikingly so on the issues of commercialism and the integration of "innovation" into "tradition."

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Shared Imaginations: Celtic and Corsican Encounters in the Soundscape of the SoulChapter 3 2 Celtic Australia: Bush Bands, Irish Music, Folk Music, and the New NationalismChapter 4 3 Diasporic Legacies: Place, Politics, and Music among the Ottawa Valley IrishChapter 5 4 Policing Tradition: Scottish Pipe Band Competition and the Role of the ComposerChapter 6 5 Tradition and the Imaginary: Irish Traditional Music and the Celtic PhenomenonChapter 7 6 "Home Is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale's Welsh AtlanticChapter 8 7 The Apollos of Shamrockery: Traditional Musics in the Modern AgeChapter 9 8 "Celtitude," Professionalism, and the Fest Noz in Traditional Music in BrittanyChapter 10 9 "You Cannae Take Your Music Stand into a Pub": A Conversation with Stan Reeves about Traditional Music Education in ScotlandChapter 11 10 Afterword: Gaelicer Than ThouChapter 12 IndexChapter 13 About the Contributors