[Commlist] Special issue published - 'Broadcasting Music & Dance', Ethnomusicology Ireland

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
Special Issue of Ethnomusicology Ireland (Vol 11, 2026) 
<https://www.ictmd.ie/ethnomusicology-ireland-11>. The issue, 
‘Broadcasting Music & Dance’, is guest edited by Rebecca 
Draisey-Collishaw and Helen Gubbins. This volume marks the 100th 
anniversary of public broadcasting in Ireland with a series of articles 
that reflect on a century’s worth of broadcasting across the world, 
including case studies from Ireland, Malaysia, Nigeria, the United 
Kingdom, and the United States.


In addition to the wide-ranging research listed below, the issue 
includes a critical preface by the guest editors that summarises the key 
debates that are addressed by authors.


Editorial

Editors' Preface – Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and Felix Morgenstern

Special Issue Editors’ Preface: Broadcasting Music and Dance – Rebecca 
Draisey-Collishaw and Helen Gubbins


Articles

Engaging the BBC’s Programmes as Broadcast Logs: Feminist Adventures 
with Big Data, the Archive, and Vera Lynn – Christina Baade

Music Programming, Radio Listenership and Broadcasting Issues in Radio 
ZHI and The British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation (1933–1940) – Xin 
Ying Ch’ng and Ham Chew Yung

“To Inform, Educate and Entertain”: The Early Radio Broadcasts of Seán Ó 
Riada – Pádraig Mac Aodhgáin

Framing the North Kerry Tradition: Broadcasting Folk Theatre in the 
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries – Susan Motherway

Peter Carr: Two Films – Stan Erraught

The On-Air Musicologist: Broadcasting Nigerian Art Music on Radio in 
Contemporary Nigeria – Olaoluwa Marvelous Ayokunmi

Radio As Resonance Chamber: Sounding Counterhegemonic Aural Imaginaries 
of Community on US Airwaves – Adriane Pontecorvo

Rethinking Operatic Presence through Volumetric Capture: Augmented 
Reality Opera from Montreal to Belfast – Zoey Mariniello Cochran, 
Clémentine Brochet and Dafydd Hall Williams


Reviews

Women in Irish Traditional Musicby Joanne Cusack, 2025 – Verena Commins

In Safe Hands an Illustrated History of Irish Traditional Music in 
Dublin (1893–1970) by Mick O'Connor, 2025 – Helen Lawlor

Are You Dancing? Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland 
by Rebecca S. Miller, 2025 – Christina Lynn

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds by Max 
Jack, 2024 – Stephen R. Millar

The Access Folk Podcast: Folk Arts and Policy in the UK’s Devolved 
Nations and Regions, and the Isle of Man by Esbjörn Wettermark and Kitty 
Turner, 2025 – Angela Moran

Heading to the Fleadh: Festival, Cultural Revival and Irish Traditional 
Music, 1951–1969 by Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, 2024 – Adrian Scahill

Essays on Music, Politics and Resistance: Sounding Empowermentedited by 
Helen Lawlor and Adrian Scahill, 2025 – Sean Williams
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