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Singing Ideas : Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry.

Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, MAire BhuI NI 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 or...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shíocháin, Tríona Ní
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2017.
Series:Dance and performance studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.