@inbook{7cd19d59ab134175934d17059d2b5d74,
title = "N{\'e}illidh Boyle: replacing traditional concepts of storytelling in exploration of the acoustic art",
abstract = "N{\'e}illidh Boyle (1889–1961) was an exceptional musician, performer, composer and folklorist. His music typifies that of a Master of the Art of Fiddle Playing, within both the Donegal Fiddle idiom to which he belongs and the wider Irish Traditional Music paradigm. He was born in Pennsylvania to emigrant parents from Donegal, but returned to Ireland at the age of ten where he pursued a long and successful career as a musician, spending his final year in Glasgow, Scotland. His music reflects the historical and geographical context of his life, and his perspective on traditional Irish music was conditioned by an underlying fear of its eventual disappearance. N{\'e}illidh made the unusual decision to voice these opinions, recording them along with his music, and providing an insight to the thoughts at the core of his playing. ",
author = "Katie Boyle",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-85752-073-6",
series = "Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 5",
publisher = "Aberdeen University Press",
pages = "30--37",
editor = "Liz Doherty and Fintan Vallely",
booktitle = "{\'O}n gCos go Cluas",
note = "North Atlantic Fiddle Convention Conference ; Conference date: 27-06-2012 Through 01-07-2012",
}