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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819550103321

Autore

Ní Shíocháin Tríona

Titolo

Singing ideas : performance, politics, and oral poetry / / Tríona Ní Shíocháin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78533-768-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations, graphs

Collana

Dance and Performance Studies ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

782.42162/91620092

Soggetti

Singing - Ireland - Social aspects

Irish poetry - History and criticism

Oral tradition - Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Singing Ideas -- Chapter 2. ‘Where Everything Trembles in the Balance’ -- Chapter 3. Singing Parrhesia -- Conclusion. Singing Ideas in Society -- Appendix of Songs and Lore -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.