CCS Editors - Dr. Shannon Thornton-Walsh

Dr. Shannon Thornton-Walsh
Associate Editor, Celtic Cultural Studies

Education

1990 B.A., with honors in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

1994 M.A., Folklore & Mythology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

1999 Ph.D., Folklore & Mythology, University of California Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Publications & Presentations

April, 1994. "Pagans, pipers and politicos: the construction of Celtic in a festival context." Paper presented at the meeting of the California Folklore Society, Davis, California.

May, 1994. "Reading the record bins: constructing ideology and Celtic musical identity in the American recording industry." Paper presented at the meeting of the University of California Celtic Studies Conference, Los Angeles, California.

October, 1994. "Reading the record bins: constructing ideology and Celtic musical identity in the American recording industry." Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Folklore Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

October, 1995. "'So, how did we sound?': musical and extra-musical factors in urban performance." Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, California.

May, 1996. "'City of the arts?': making a case of Galway and a case for its music co-op." Paper presented to the Graduate Ethnomusicology Seminar of Queen's University Belfast. Belfast, N. Ireland.

October, 1997. "Reconciling folkloristics to the study of popular music in Ireland." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society. Austin, Texas.

1999. "Fanning the Celtic flame: music patronage and practice in contemporary Ireland." Western Folklore, Special Edition: Locating Celtic Musics. James Porter, ed.

1999. "Reading the record bins: the commercial construction of Celtic music," in New Directions in Celtic Studies. Hale & Payton, eds. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

with Hale, A. 1999. "Pagans, pipers and politicos: constructing Celtic identity in the festival context," in New Directions in Celtic Studies. Hale & Payton, eds. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Related Professional Experience

BROOKHAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Dallas, TX 1999-Present

Adjunct Instructor, Communications Division

LEE HECHT HARRISON, Dallas, TX 1997-Present

Administrative Asst.

Fieldwork - Republic of Ireland, 1996-1997

UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

GALWAY MUSIC CENTRE, Republic of Ireland, 1996

Information Officer.

Fieldwork - UCLA Folklore Program Discretionary Funds grant

UCLA, 1994-95

Research Assistant/Co-coordinator, "VITAS 10: Film Festival of Folklife and Popular Culture" (annual event).

UCLA, FALL 1993/WINTER 1994

Planning Committee, "Gender, Folklore, Feminism: Connections and Disparities" (academic conference).

Co-coordinator, "Folklore in Animation" - a special program/presentation in concert with the 1994 VITAS Film Festival of Folklife and Popular Culture.

UCLA, SPRING 1993

Planning Committee, "Twenty-third International Ballad Conference" (academic conference).

General Assistant, Department of Special Collections, University Research Library.

UCLA, FALL/WINTER 1992-93

Planning Committee, "Burlesque: Tradition and Transgression" (academic conference).

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