Singing Ideas : Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
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| Title: | Singing Ideas : Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry |
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| Description: | Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society. |
| Authors: | Tríona Ní Shíocháin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Oral tradition--Ireland, Singing--Social aspects--Ireland, Singing--Political aspects--Ireland, Irish poetry--History and criticism |
| Categories: | MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society. |
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| ISBN: | 9781785337673 9781800731820 9781785337680 9781807583552 |
