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Audio Recording Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Names

  • Moloney, Mick, 1944- (Collector)
  • Rice, Noel (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, May 5, 1977

Headings

  • -  Irish Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Noel Rice, part 2
  • -  Part 2 of 2-part interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago; the fieldworker reports that this interview was conducted late at night in a restaurant, with music, the clattering of cutlery, and occasional rumbles of digestion in the background; the recorded part of the interview followed a candid conversation about Chicago’s Irish American community that was not appropriate to record; topics include teaching in Chicago; about various ways of publicly expressing Irish identity among Chicago Irish Americans; about crafts, there is a a little painting but Noel Rice felt it was “not ethnic”; not much in the Celtic fine arts either, there is one uilleann pipe maker, now getting very old; about Noel Rice's own occupations since coming to Chicago, how his music ties in with his general life style, there are Ceilidhes on the north side; about his children and their involvement in Irish music; the need for social contact ; about the areas where Irish culture in Chicago needs assistance, areas of priority, and why; Rice feels that music keeps the culture together, without dance and music, no singing; music “is the mortar that holds them all together”; most of the great musicians in Chicago are getting old and their skill not being passed on; about the dancing scene, Rice feels it is well taken care of, there are perhaps 5,000 children learning Irish dance in Chicago, and only 50 children learning music from him; about the traditional singing scene, it is in a desperate state, there is one teacher; about the learning process; about sean-nos (old style) singing, and Rice’s determination to keep it alive.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20579a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0641
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T056-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Moloney, Mick, and Noel Rice. Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, May 5, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20579a/.

APA citation style:

Moloney, M. & Rice, N. (1977) Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, May 5. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20579a/.

MLA citation style:

Moloney, Mick, and Noel Rice. Interview with Noel Rice about teaching Irish music and dance in Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Chicago, Illinois, May 5, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20579a/>.