| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) |
| Series |
Dance and performance studies ; volume 12 |
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Dance and performance studies ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
List of Figures; Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Singing Ideas: An Alternative History of Thought; Chapter 2. 'Where Everything Trembles in the Balance': Song as a Liminal Ludic Space; Chapter 3. Singing Parrhesia: Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire, Song Performance and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conclusion: Singing Ideas in Society: Experience, Song and 'Passing Through' Appendix of Songs and Lore Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Performance Studies, History: 18th/19th Century, Anthropology (General), Literary Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2018) |
| Subject |
Ní Laoire, Máire Bhuí, 1774-1849.
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| SUBJECT |
Ní Laoire, Máire Bhuí, 1774-1849 fast |
| Subject |
Singing -- Social aspects -- Ireland
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Singing -- Political aspects -- Ireland
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Irish poetry -- History and criticism
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Oral tradition -- Ireland
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism
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Irish poetry
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Oral tradition
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017052405 |
| ISBN |
9781785337680 |
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1785337688 |
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