Download e-book for iPad: Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry (Dance by Tríona Ní Shíocháin

By Tríona Ní Shíocháin

Considered by means of many to be the best Irish music poet of her new release, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary; 1774–1848) used to be an illiterate girl unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her personal society via song.  As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical imaginative and prescient stirred her group to insurrection and helped to form nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial concept. This provocative and richly theorized examine explores the re-creative, liminal element of track, treating it as a performative social method that cuts to the very root of id and inspiration formation, hence re-imagining the background of rules in society.

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