Roxanne O’Connell, Ph.D., “Your Granny’s Gramophone: The Cultural Impact of early recording technology on Irish Music”
Roxanne O’Connell, Ph.D., “Your Granny’s Gramophone: The Cultural Impact of early recording technology on Irish Music”
The music that is broadly defined as Irish has developed in tandem with the media technologies of the past 100 years. From the wax cylinder to the iPod, technology has had a dramatic impact on the preservation, transmission and transformation of music in general and of Irish music in particular, a genre whose roots lie