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Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

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Series: Dance and Performance Studies, Book 12

AnthropologyCountry & FolkMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1800731825
ISBN13: 9781800731820
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Jul 16 2021
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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