Singing Ideas - Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Tríona Ní Shíocháin is a whistle-player, singer and interdisciplinary scholar specializing in performance theory, oral theory and Irish-language song and poetry. She is Professor of Modern Irish and Performing Arts at Maynooth University, and was previously Lecturer in Irish Traditional Music at University College, Cork. She is author of  Bláth’s Craobh na nÚdar: Amhráin Mháire Bhuí  (2012). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.

Product details

• Authors: Triona Ni Shiochain, Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Triona Ni Shiochain Shiochain, Shíocháin Tríona Ní
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781800731820
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-182-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Dance and Performance Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political activism, Ireland, Poetry by individual poets, Political activism / Political engagement, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest