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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books, Incorporated,
2017.
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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.