Article

Band Practice: Class, Taste and Identity in Ulster Loyalist Flute Bands

Gordon Ramsey

Published in: Ethnomusicology Ireland 1 (2011)

Pages: 1-15 | Published Online: 2011

https://doi.org/10.64208/LCBM5743

Abstract

The first part of this paper will document the history which brought flute band genres into being, whilst the second part will use ethnographic experience within bands from each of three flute band genres to explore the different ways that class, ethnicity and aesthetics interact to produce the specific tastes, practices and embodied identities which define and sustain these bands.

Keywords: Flute bands, fife, drum, Northern Ireland

Author: Gordon Ramsey