Singing Ideas : : Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry / / Tríona Ní Shíocháin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Shíocháin, Tríona Ní,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Dance and Performance Studies ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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