The invention of ethnicity: traditional music and the modulations of Irish culture by Harry White

“…The history of traditional music in Ireland remains to be written. This task cannot be undertaken until Irish musicology emancipates itself from the constraints of a scholarship which concentrates upon collection and analysis at the expense of critical discourse. …”
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The Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020: Double Jigs in the Style of O'Neill's 1001 by Bob Sturm, Hugo Maruri-Aguilar

“…This article describes and analyses the Ai Music Generation Challenge 2020, where seven participants competed to build artificial systems that generate the most plausible double jigs, as judged against the 365 published in The Dance Music of Ireland: O'Neill's 1001 (1907). The outcomes of this challenge demonstrate how music generation systems can be meaningfully evaluated, and furthermore that the generation of plausible double jigs has yet to be "solved". …”
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