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Read about Fiona Flynn's rise to fame and her personal thoughts on culture!
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Learn how and what
makes Tour Amour tick
SPECIAL ISSUE: Fiona Flynn
TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome! The wait for the special issue featuring Fiona Flynn is over. Inside this magazine get the latest scoop on Fiona’s latest tour: Tour Amour. Collect tips and tricks on becoming a rock star, a fashionista, and a cosmetics guru. Also check out the exclusive interview with Fiona Flynn.
Page2:FionaFlynn’sInterview‐LearnmoreaboutFiona’spersonalthoughtsonhermusiccareer
Page4:TheMakingofTourAmour‐InsidescoopofFiona’ssecretsofbecomingfamous
Page8:CulturalBackgroundArticle‐DivingintoFiona’sculturalbackgroundandhowsheincorporatesherculturalwhenontravel
Page10:PopularityofPopMusic‐LearnmoreaboutthecomparisonoftheTop100WorldsongstotheTop8Irishsongs
Page11:Fiona’sInternationallyInspiredLook‐TipsandtricksonFiona’scosmeticusageandproductsfavoredbyFiona
Page13:MapsofAmourTour‐TracethestepsofFiona’stourandunderstandthelogisticsoftravel
Page22:“MyDublinBay”‐LearnthemeaningbehindthesongsFiona
Page23:FashionTrendsaroundtheWorld‐Diffusionofthelatestfashiontrends
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Fiona Flynn’s Interview
During the making of this issue, Fiona Flynn was so gracious to accept an interview with the Ceolta Magazine team. She offered the team insight on the true feelings of musicians and their views. Learn what inspires these great musicians to stand where they are today.
Q: What inspired you to start singing? A: My mother enjoyed singing but because the circumstances she was put in, she was forced to quit her professional career. She always sang to me as a little girl and I remember pretending to be asleep so she would sing to me! Silly, right?
Q: How did you discover your talents? A: When I was a kid, I used to sing along to all the cartoon theme songs, and one day my grandpa told me I had an amazing gift! My mother gave me some lessons, and I tried out for the X Factor. After I didn't make it, my uncle who works at Chimes of Ireland Records helped me. After we made some tracks and produced some stuff, people started to take an interest in me. Q: Do you have any role models in the music industry? A: Well, my mother has had a huge impact on my career. Apart from her, I find The Beatles as a legend to look up to. Their style spread all around the globe; it’s amazing what an influence a band can be! They made the music industry augment with their new styles. I don’t know one person who has never heard of The Beatles! I hope to make a similar impact on our generation.
Q: And how do you think you can make such an impact? A: My team and I have been very successful in choosing out tour and concert locations. We chose out the most populated and central venues for our events. All of our crowds and audiences were well into my style. I also tried to incorporate other musical influences that are popular right now into my own. I hope I can become multicultural having traditional and modern takes on the world. I think I am still sort of bereft on what I need to do.
Q: Traveling can make everyone homesick; how did you cope? A: Well, I like to think of my tour bus as my new home, and I like to fill it with all sorts of souvenirs from everywhere I've been, it really makes me feel closer to my audience and fans. I do have a four leaf clover hanging on the wall though!
Fiona Flynn’s Interview
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Fiona Flynn’s Interview
Q: What places are the most different from here in Ireland? A: On my USA tour of 2009, I visited a place in Pennsylvania near a very distinct local culture called the Amish. They have no technology and no electricity. Obviously that is very different from here! They don’t have any cars, they ride horses, and they make furniture for money. Yes, that was very different!
Q: Did the Amish appreciate your musical style? A: I don’t think I interested them too much. I visited their neighborhood to promote my concert; however, I was informed that my music threatens their culture. I was simply given a plain and stolid response. I suppose they simply meant that they didn’t want to lose their original way of life. I guess they thought I was trying to adulterate their culture or something!
Q: What trends have you picked up from your travel? A: Bright colors are so internationally hot right now. On my tour in India, I saw some precious sarees, which is what Indian women wear; I brought along a colorful set of scarves to wear wherever I travel! I also have more makeup and fashionable tops from all around the world. It’s amazing how much globalization affects everyone in the world. I feel like a connection between all the places I travel. What happens in one place truly affects another.
Q: Fiona, thank you for your time. When will your next tour start? A: You are most welcome! My next tour starts next year in 2013; I will be traveling out to Asian mega cities like Beijing. I can’t wait!
Fiona Flynn’s Interview
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The Making of Tour Amour
iona Flynn is an international music
sensation. Her famous Tour Amour goes
from New York to exotic places like
Morocco and Kenya. As said by Fiona,
“There is a lot more to touring than just
putting your finger on a map and saying
‘let’s go there’! Studying culture and the
hierarchical dispersion of culture has to do
with a lot of it.” Fiona holds a valued point
in saying that the study of culture and its
dispersion is a key to success when touring.
Musicians find it impossible to stride for
success unwarily; everything must be
strategic. Although not all of Fiona’s tours
went as planned, she dealt with tough
issues with fortitude.
“There is a lot more
to touring then just
putting your finger in
a map and saying
‘let’s go there’!”
Geographers are always looking for
connections between what is happening
and why. This can be thought of as a field
of inquiry. The questions are limitless; and
the more answers that are found, the more
interconnected everything seems. Tour
groups often use geographical findings to
advance their opportunities. Concepts that
geographers have come across include
hierarchical diffusion, distance decay, and
cultural landscape. Hierarchical dispersion
is a form of diffusion in which an idea or
innovation spreads by passing first among
the most connected places or peoples. You
can see how studying this can help deploy a
tour. A tour like Tour Amour could very
much go through the process of
hierarchical dispersion, starting in the
more populous hearth-like cities. Trends
move from hearths to places they go well
noticed and heard of. In the case of pop
music, the “hierarchy” is teenagers. In
today’s society, teenagers play a crucial role
in what’s popular and what’s not. Teens
have very pliable, tentative minds which
contribute to the rapidly changing fads.
One day, listening to classical rock may be
F
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The Making of Tour Amour
in the norm. The next day, listening to
classical rock might be preposterous!
Fiona Flynn’s style of music is
considered a “pop” genre; for it to be
successful, tour locations must be central
hearths. Fiona is pop culture, and little local
culture areas are probably not going to
know as much about her as the hearth-like
areas are. Distance decay is another factor
Fiona says affects her tour. “The more away
from hearths places are, the less they are
adulterated by popular culture. That puts
limitations on places where we can tour.”
Common locations for music tours in the
“pop” genre include New York, Atlanta,
and London. Record companies do more
elaborate studies on how to produce “the
next big thing”. A common way musicians
like Fiona gain popularity is by performing
on channels such as MTV. Geographer
Clayton Rosati did such a
study to emphasize the
role of MTV on popular
culture. Rosati’s results
showed that “MTV’s
incorporation of rap music and Hip Hop
expressive forms into its production in
1997 helped produce music celebrities”.
(De Blij, 2007, pg. 113)
The pull between globalized popular
culture and local culture can be seen in the
cultural landscape which is another factor
or strategy that is used. Fiona likes to think
of herself as bringing people together, and
looking at the cultural landscape can
ensure a successful tour. However, not all
people are open to this assimilation. Others
view homogeneity between all countries
and various ethnicities as a gibe. Local
cultures often credit their music as a
distinctive characteristic that is a part of
their customs. When international
influences breeze into local cultures, new
eras begin. According to geographer
Edward Relph, “Placelessness is a word to
describe the loss of uniqueness of place in
the cultural landscape so that one place
looks like the next.” (De Blij, 2007, pg.
117) This example relates to not just
physical landscapes, but to cultural
interests as well.
As noted in Human Geography People,
Place, and Culture (page 11) “The five
themes of geography are location, human-
environment interactions, region, place,
and movement.” These themes are the
verbatim points that make up Tour Amour,
and what make it an international
accomplishment. The location of where the
concerts are placed is vital, and the way
people interact with the concerts (EX:
buying tickets or not going) is
indispensable for the tour. Region comes
into play since there is no way Tour Amour
can go places that are not in the “pop-
culture” region, thus they must stay there.
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The Making of Tour Amour
Fiona mentions that while studying the
different regions, she had to pay attention
to perceptual regions, such as the
generalized area considered the “South” of
North America. On a smaller scale, Fiona
looked at functional regions such as Atlanta
and its suburbs. All the places on the earth
are unique and bring certain likings and
values to the tour. Finally, movement is the
third “theme”. How is she supposed to have
a concert when no one can come to it?
When all these factors come together, it
becomes obvious why certain musicians
gain more popularity than others.
Musicians truly must plan out their
steps on how to get to where they need to
be. However, not all musicians follow the
same path Fiona did; some gain popularity
through the Internet.
The last things that make up her
tour strategy are GPS, maps, and GIS. These
things all either tell Fiona and her crew
where they’re going, or show them how to
get there. Geographical Information
Systems layers the information unlike the
others but they all have the same goal.
Mapping out data keeps the team
organized. The complete Tour Amour map
comes together to show the associations of
place and diffusion. Using these opulent
technological advances, Fiona’s team can
put together pinpoints and facts about how
to travel. Without GIS, the team would not
know which areas in Ireland are most
populated, and differentiate between the
places in Ireland in which the population is
mostly youth.
On the next few pages, there are maps
of Fiona Flynn’s Tour Amour locations.
Comparing them to population dot maps,
there is a clear correlation between youth
population and event venues. Fiona’s team
of experts was very ambidextrous at
collecting as much information as they
could. They gathered information from
census data to determine population sizes.
Every single detail of Fiona’s tour was
thought out on different scales. First, the
team chose out the most populated
countries. Then, Fiona personally studied
each country to find the most populated
region. Within the region, further studies
were made to find the demographics of the
densest populations.
Tour Amour has multifarious
subjects that make it pop, but somehow
they all harmonize to bring us the complex
musical beauty that is Tour Amour.
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OLD IRISH
TUNES Home to Hundreds of Irish
Instruments
Bodhran~flute~harp~fiddle~tin whistle
guitar~uilleann pipes~bagpipes~banjo~
bouzoukis~piano~accordion~mandolin~
concertina~ harmonica~ Irish warpipes~
chrotta~pastoral pipes~dord
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Cultural Background of Fiona Flynn
Everybody knows about Fiona
Flynn’s fame around the world, but not
everybody knows how she got
there. The authenticity of Fiona’s
style is what truly brought her
international attention. Her
musical taste satisfies her Irish
background as well as the latest
obsession of hip hop and
pop. Here in Ireland, fast and
upbeat fiddle rhythms make up most of the
folk culture. On the other hand, the youth of
Ireland enjoys the new music technology
and instruments brought in by other
international influences. Will the traditional
Irish music be worn out by the assimilation
of the new popular culture trends?
Fiona was thirteen when
she decided she was going to be
a singer. Because her parents
owned a traditional Irish pub,
she grew up listening to Irish
folk music when it was being
performed there. Fiona wasn’t
the average Irish teenager. While other
teenagers were listening to pop and
absorbing the western culture, Fiona stayed
true to her culture and practiced her flute
and fiddle. As she became a better musician,
her parents let her perform at the pub. It only
took a week for a music producer to notice
her and for her dreams to come true.
Even though Fiona’s style of music
was traditional Irish folk music, it
didn’t take long for her to change
her style after she got
discovered. According to
Encyclopedia Britannica (2012),
“Dublin had undergone
modernization”. Dublin had gone
through regionalization as well as
modernization, because there were common
traits in Dublin that were making it a region
rather than just a city. What made Dublin its
own region were the modern influences that
separated it from the rest of Ireland.
Consequently, Fiona was surrounded by
urban influences, and it was hard for her to
not to change her
culture through
acculturation. As a
result, Fiona’s music
had influences of pop.
In spite of the pop
influences in Fiona’s
music, her music was primarily Irish folk
music. Therefore, people in Ireland were her
biggest fans. Her location played a major
part of her fan-base, because she lived in a
place where her music was already popular.
After Fiona Flynn got discovered,
her popularity was rapidly diffusing.
THE SILVER BEAR
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Cultural Background of Fiona Flynn
According to David Harvey, a famous
geographer, called the diffusion of culture,
similar to Fiona’s growing popularity, the
“time-space compression” model. Harvey
explained that culture diffuses between
countries that are more interlinked through
transportation and communication, rather
than how far apart they are. Fiona’s
popularity spread the same way;
Fiona became more popular in
countries that were more
connected and interlinked
with Ireland. Furthermore,
Fiona had several culture
traits that were diffusing. For
example, her fiddle, unique
music, and the four-leaf
clover necklace she wears
around her neck every day are culture
traits. When Fiona traveled to different
countries on her world tour her international
fans were exposed to her culture traits. They
loved her necklace and fiddle, but
pop music was diffusing faster than
Irish folk music. So, Fiona wanted
to change her music style and play
primarily pop music influenced by
Irish folk music. As a result, Fiona
was losing part of her culture (Irish
folk music) and was going through
assimilation. Assimilation is when
people lose some of their culture
traits. Although Fiona wasn’t
playing pure Irish folk music, she was
representing her Irish culture and proudly
exposing it to the rest of the world.
Time Compression Model by David
Harvey.
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Top 100 Songs Around the World:
Irish Popularity
Some Nights
By: Fun We Are Never Ever
Getting
Back Together
By: Taylor Swift
Good Time By: Owl City
and Carly Rae Jepsen
Blow Me(One Last Kiss)
By: Pink Whistle By: Flo Rida
Payphone By: Maroon
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Wide
Awake
By: Katy
Perry
Call Me Maybe By: Carly Rae
Jepsen
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A common nail polish
trend would be bright
metallic! All the rage in
India and is rocked by
celebs everywhere! Not
only are regular metallic
cute but colorful metallic
are all the international
rage!
#trending
#metallic
We asked Fiona how her skin looked so
beautiful, and her secret… Cerave! The
hottest skin care product in the U.S.!
Her Addiction? M.A.C. eye shadow in
bright tropical colors! She told us that she
saw it trending in the nightlife of India
#trending
Fiona’s internationally inspired
look
Red Lipstick is
Fiona’s Favorite
statement piece!
Inspired from the
streets of London
Fiona rocks this at
all her major
premieres!
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Tour Amour
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Population Map (Each dot represents
approximately 250,000)
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Population Map
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Population Map
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Population Map
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Population Map
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Originally written by Sonny Knowles
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The diffusion of
clothing trends is inspired
by the bright colors and
unique looks from around
the world. Fashion
designers are incorporating
trends seen in other
countries and making
fashion lines that are seen
on the runway today.
Modern necklaces found in
the fashion world today are
inspired by the big beads
used in African necklaces.
The ruffles shown in
traditional Latin dresses are
also coming into trend,
mainly seen in prom
dresses. A pop star that
rocks the latest fashion
trends is the famous Fiona
Flynn. She came from the
Around the world,
traditional clothing is the
inspiration for top fashion
designers into creating the
latest trends
city of Dublin and
had a very casual
wardrobe. While
touring around the
world, the fashion
trends influenced her
wardrobe, and now
Fiona leaves mouths
gaping wherever she
goes.
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