![]() ![]() I show how, in learning and playing this music, musicians also learn to become a particular type of person, with certain aesthetics, ethics, and behaviours associated with ideas of ―tradition,‖ ―musicality,‖ ―community,‖ and ―place.‖ I also explore the different ways that musicians express these ideas and the politics, hierarchies, and exclusions implicated in debates over what it means to be a ―traditional musician.‖ I argue that, in becoming part of these negotiations, musicians establish their position within the St. Drawing on interviews and participant observation, I explore the significance of this music for musicians in terms of their self-definitions, social networks, senses of place and belonging, and livelihoods. ![]() This thesis offers an ethnographic account of the musical lives of musicians who play traditional Irish and Newfoundland music at ―sessions‖ in St. ![]()
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