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Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy
Barbara Dignam
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Description for Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy
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A towering figure in the musical and cultural evolution of modern Ireland, Brian Boydell (1917-2000) has been described as a 'renaissance man' and by President Mary Robinson as a 'tireless wheeler-dealer for music'. One of Ireland's leading twentieth-century composers, he was also an outspoken agitator and positive disruptor for the enrichment and expansion of music and cultural identity in Ireland. He became a household name as composer, broadcaster, adjudicator, public lecturer, performer, musicologist, professor of music at Trinity College Dublin and long-term member of the Arts Council. Stimulated by the centenary of his birth in 2017, this collection of 15 ... Read more
A towering figure in the musical and cultural evolution of modern Ireland, Brian Boydell (1917-2000) has been described as a 'renaissance man' and by President Mary Robinson as a 'tireless wheeler-dealer for music'. One of Ireland's leading twentieth-century composers, he was also an outspoken agitator and positive disruptor for the enrichment and expansion of music and cultural identity in Ireland. He became a household name as composer, broadcaster, adjudicator, public lecturer, performer, musicologist, professor of music at Trinity College Dublin and long-term member of the Arts Council. Stimulated by the centenary of his birth in 2017, this collection of 15 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781910820940
SKU
9781910820940
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About Barbara Dignam
Barbara Dignam is Assistant Professor in Music at Dublin City University. Her research explores intersections of music, language, technology, and culture. She contributed to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin, 2013), and has published on contemporary Irish composer Roger Doyle in Irish Musical Analysis. Barra Boydell is Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Maynooth University, and Brian Boydell's son. Co-editor of ... Read more
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