TY - CHAP
T1 - Contesting and negotiating hegemonic discourses
T2 - Constructing and developing a master’s programme in Irish traditional dance performance within a university context
AU - Foley, Catherine E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Helen Phelan and Graham F. Welch individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2021/3/30
Y1 - 2021/3/30
N2 - This chapter examines the Masters programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance, which was introduced at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick in 1999. It reflects upon the rationale for its emergence and explores how it contested and negotiated hegemonic discourses present within the world of competitive Irish dancing. This hegemonic discourse is examined, focusing on historical, ideological and cultural issues and their impact on the construction of an Irish step-dancing body. The chapter investigates questions relating to the institutionalization and artification of indigenous dance practices within university contexts, and argues that the Masters programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the University of Limerick, while engaged in these processes, also respected and involved marginalized indigenous dance practices together with competitive Irish dance, to provide an important pedagogical, reflexive and training site for advanced Irish dancers.
AB - This chapter examines the Masters programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance, which was introduced at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick in 1999. It reflects upon the rationale for its emergence and explores how it contested and negotiated hegemonic discourses present within the world of competitive Irish dancing. This hegemonic discourse is examined, focusing on historical, ideological and cultural issues and their impact on the construction of an Irish step-dancing body. The chapter investigates questions relating to the institutionalization and artification of indigenous dance practices within university contexts, and argues that the Masters programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the University of Limerick, while engaged in these processes, also respected and involved marginalized indigenous dance practices together with competitive Irish dance, to provide an important pedagogical, reflexive and training site for advanced Irish dancers.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780429433917-19
DO - 10.4324/9780429433917-19
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85109224872
SN - 9781138359116
SP - 181
EP - 201
BT - The Artist and Academia
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -