Lecture Presented by Museum of Newport Irish History

                  Michael F. Crowley Lecture Series
               Speaker: 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 deep in non-technical oral traditions. This talk examines the role the gramophone played during the first half of the twentieth century as Irish music traveled back and forth across the Atlantic. Dr. Roxanne O'Connell investigates the patterns that emerged based on information gleaned from interviews with Irish and Irish American families and musicians and an analysis of their collections of 78s.

Reception with light hors d'oeuvres will be held following talk. Cash bar.

Reservations required:
Contact Ann at tpm1@earthlink.net or 401.841.5493

Fee:
$2 Museum members
$15 Non-Member donation,may be applied to 1-year membership