Helen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing and migration. Her book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. She is co-founder of the female vocal ensemble Cantoral, specializing in Irish medieval chant; founder of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group; and IMBAS, a support network for artistic research in Ireland. Her most recent Health Research Institute funded project explores the use of arts-based methods in migrant health research.

Graham F. Welch has held the Established Chair of Music Education at UCL Institute of Education (formerly University of London) since 2001. He is a Past President of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) (2008-2014) and elected Chair of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE). He holds Visiting Professorships at universities in the United Kingdom and overseas, and is a former member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Review College for Music (2007-2015).

Introduction

Essay 1: The Artist Turned Inside Out

Helen Phelan

Interlude 1: Outside In

Óscar Mascareñas

Part I: The Artist as Educator and Mediator in Academia

Essay Two: '... to know the place for the first time ...': Exploring and Researching through the Arts

Christopher Frayling

Essay Three: A Gallery of Hanging Thoughts: Framed Questions, Open Answers. Dance-artists in Conversation about the Process of Creating and Performing their Own Work.

Mary Nunan

Interlude 2: Stories

Joseph O'Connor

Essay Four: Landscapes of the In-Between: Artists Mediating CulturesAnya Peterson Royce

Interlude 3: An Island in the Middle of the Ocean

Alan Doyle

Interlude 4: The Land of Silence

Laura Murphy

Essay Five: The Artist-Teacher as Cultural Mediator

Marie McCarthy

Interlude 5: 'Crossing the Threshold: a Music Teacher's Journey into the Academy'

Jean Downey

Essay Six: Collaborative Knowledge Sharing for Mind and Body: Celebrating the Role of Arts in Health

Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Tríona McCaffrey, Amanda M. Clifford, Joanne Shanahan, Olive Beecher, Hilary Moss.

Part II: The Artist as Educator and Subversive in Academia

Essay Seven: The Subversive Potential of Praxis and Political Emotions in Arts Academies

David Elliott and Marissa Silverman

Interlude 6: The Well-Spring Deep Inside

Dana Delany

Essay Eight: Protest, Subversion and Critical Citizenship: Reflections on an Irish Singer-Songwriter

Aileen Dillane

Interlude 7: A Cello Can Be Stronger than a Machine Gun

Nigel Osborne

Essay Nine: Contesting and Negotiating Hegemonic Discourses: Constructing and Developing a Masters Programme in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Within a University Context Catherine Foley

Part III: Case study examples of the lived experienced of the Artist in Academia from the Irish World Academy

Essay Ten: Cultural Redress and the Growth of Love: A Guided Autoethnography

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Interlude 8: Singing Out, Singing Up

Kathleen Turner

Interlude 9: The Academy as a Space of Musical Fosterage

Tommy Hayes

Interlude 10: Dancing as a Citizen of the World

RAS Michael Courtney

Interlude 11: The Academy as Transformation

Colin Dunne

Conclusion

Essay Eleven: Why the arts and artists are important