Folk music of Ireland

Irish Folk is a designation for the world's most popular Irish folk music. In the English-speaking world, and especially in Ireland is more of Irish Traditional Music (Irish ceol na hÉireann traidisiúnta, German: Irish Traditional Music) spoken.

Development

The Irish folk music goes back to rhythmic vocal pieces, which were accompanied a cappella, so-called Puirt a bulge (mouth music or lilting ) and Sean - nós singing. Also bagpipes and drums were used in military contexts.

The music can be traced back to the 17th century. You will - together with the folk music from Scotland and Brittany - often referred to as " Celtic music ". However, an actual connection with the culture of the Celts ( about 900 to 50 BC ) is not detectable.

Only in the 18th century, the instruments were added, which shape the sound of Irish folk music today. This was particularly the Fiddle (Violin), Tin Whistle (metal flute), uilleann pipes ( bagpipes ), accordion ( in Ireland is called the button accordion, box, preferably ) and wooden flute Irish: flute, but also the piano, concertina, banjo and the mandolin and mandola. Since the 1960s, the bodhrán ( Irish frame drum ), guitar and Irish bouzouki found its way into the instruments, and the relatively little used Celtic harp. The assimilation of new instruments is a development that continues to the present. To be taken up many possible sound generation possibilities and musical trends in modern and multicultural Ireland. In many pubs, the typical Irish pubs, is regularly play music (often called open session ). Popular basic shapes of the pieces are of the reel, the jig, the slip jig, hornpipe, the, the Slow Air, the slide and the polka.

Presence

In recent years, Irish Folk has been found in Europe more and more followers. A focus of this " revival " was Doolin in County Clare. Others were and are Dublin, Galway and Dingle. The emigration of many Irish in the wake of the Great Kartoffelpest led to the emergence of major Irish communities among others in the United States. Internationally known Irish bands like the Chieftains or the Dubliners will find a large audience. But Anglo-Irish bands such as the Pogues have achieved world with original interpretations of Irish music successes.

Especially, the influences from the United States have Irish folklore open access to worldwide popularity. Reference is made to the successful and controversial in adherents of traditional Irish music Irish dance dance shows Riverdance and Lord of the Dance.

In the area of ​​pop and rock borrows from the Irish folk music and the use of appropriate instruments such as uilleann pipes and low whistle have already tradition. Among the performers with such influences include Kate Bush, Enya, The Hooters and Van Morrison.

Irish Rebel Music ( Irish rebel music ) is a subgenre of Irish folk music, often played with the same musical instruments. It has the lyrics to Irish nationalism to the object and also takes sides with the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin since the 1920s. The music takes the form of outdated instrumentation and mixes them well with new forms of music like hip -hop and pop music. The Irish Rebel Music has gained international attention in the recent past. For example, A Nation Once Again the music band Wolfe Tones ' from the BBC World Service at number one in 2002 was elected. The ballad The Men Behind the Wire, who performed the band Barleycorn was to the beginning of 1972 a total of five weeks the number 1 in the charts of Ireland.

Individual pieces of music of the Irish Rebel Music were temporarily banned on radio and led to controversy. So the music of Derek Warfield was banned on flights operated by Aer Lingus, as a politician of the Ulster Unionist Party, Roy Beggs Jr., this songs with the speeches of Osama bin Laden compared. Nevertheless, it has found its place in the Irish folk.

Festivals

There are numerous Irish folk festivals. These include, in Germany Irish Folk & Celtic Music Festival as part of the Balver cave folk in the castle in Bad Rappenau Bonfeld, the Irish Folk Open Air Poyenberg Itzehoe, folk! in the night in Stendal and the Castellans Folks summer in Hörstel and Irish Folk Nights in Maulbronn - Zaisersweiher. For the 18th time was the Folk Festival held in Duisburg -Rheinhausen. Another festival is held every two years in the ruins Volmarstein. More folk festivals cover a broader spectrum including Irish Folk, about the Tønder Tønder Festival in Denmark.