{"product_id":"creative-impulses-cultural-accents-brian-boydells-music-advocacy-painting-and-legacy-9781910820940","title":"Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barra Boydell | Barbara Dignam\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University College Dublin Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University College Dublin Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifteen essays explore the life of an unparalleled figure in the musical and cultural life of twentieth-century Ireland.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Brian Boydell (1917-2000) was one of twentieth-century Ireland's leading composers and something of a Renaissance man to boot. He became a household name not only for his music and outspoken support of the expansion of Irish cultural identity, but for the many hats he wore as a broadcaster, professor, performer, and long-term member of Ireland's Arts Council. The recent centenary of his birth stimulated fresh interest in Boydell's many compositions and his role as a multidimensional figure in Ireland's musical and cultural life. The fifteen essays collected here focus both on his music--from his earliest orchestral works to his pioneering compositions for Irish and concert harp--and on his more varied contributions, including his musicological research, his involvement as a founding member of the Music Association of Ireland, his professorship at Trinity College Dublin, and his radio career. \u003ci\u003eCreative Impulses, Cultural Accents\u003c\/i\u003e also draws on Boydell's private papers to illuminate little-known corners of his life, like his interest in painting. This essay collection is a celebratory salutation to an entirely fascinating figure who contributed immensely to the cultural evolution of a modern nation. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University College Dublin Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47596002705559,"sku":"9781910820940","price":4703.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781910820940.webp?v=1774992076","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/creative-impulses-cultural-accents-brian-boydells-music-advocacy-painting-and-legacy-9781910820940","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}