Trad Nation

"This is a timely and exciting new work; its original approach and activist underpinning draws fluently from multiple contexts and disciplines. Scholars in musics, gender and sexuality, and Irish Studies will all find surprising revelations and meaningful points of discussion."—Sean Williams, author of Focus: Irish Traditional Music and Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man

"Trad Nation makes a significant and much needed intervention in Irish studies, expanding our understanding of Irish traditional music and those who play it. Eloquent in argument, drawing on neglected resources, Tes Slominski articulates theoretical complexities with a clarity that makes the text broadly accessible."—Dr. Helen O'Shea, author of The Making of Irish

"Thoughtful, provocative, rigorous, and timely: Slominski brings a critical, embodied ethnomusicological lens to this study of Irish music, asking vital questions about the past, present, and future of the 'Tradition' while expanding conceptions of identity and belonging."—Aileen Dillane, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland