Singing Ideas (eBook)

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Tríona Ní Shíocháin (Autor)

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2017
214 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-768-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Mire Bhu N 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, Mire Bhu 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.

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 Lecturer in Irish Traditional Music at University College, Cork, and was previously Lecturer in Irish Language and Literature at the University of Limerick. She is author of Bláth’s Craobh na nÚdar: Amhráin Mháire Bhuí (2012).

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Singing Ideas: An Alternative History of Thought


(Un)doing History: The Authority of Literacy and the Performativity of Thought

Oral Trouble and Women’s Voices: Searching for Intellectual

Traditions Beyond the Written Word

Singing Politics and Power in Society: Some Comparative Examples

Seizing Agency: Women of Song

Beyond the Limits of Textuality: Performing the Past and Performing Thought


Chapter 2. ‘Where Everything Trembles in the Balance’: Song as a Liminal Ludic Space


The Theory of Liminality

Performing Liminality: Poetry as a Symbolic Marker for Liminality in the Irish Tradition

A Journey to the Sacred and Back: The Liminality of the Aisling (Vision)

Song and Oral Poetic Performance as Ritual

Separating from the Profane: Ekstasis and Song

Moments of Potentiality: The Antistructure of Melody and Verse in the Irish Tradition

The Ritual Powers of (Song) Poetry: Satire, Insult and Fearlessness

The Potentiality of the Play-Sphere: The Challenging Discourse of Song

The Singer of Ideas as ‘Seer of Communitas’: The Liminality of Song and the Generation of Ideas


Chapter 3. Singing Parrhesia: Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire, Song Performance and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland


Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire: Nineteenth-Century Song Poet

Irish-Language Song-Making: Poetry as Performance and the Aesthetics of Orality

Multiformity and Oral Formulaic Techniques

Local Agrarian Agitation and the Creation of the Poetic Radical

Crisis and Charisma: The Song Poet as Prophet and Truth-Teller

Identity and the Aesthetics of Orality: New Ideas and the Narrative of Belonging

Framing the Revolution: Performing Antistructure and the Vision of the Revolution through Song

From Generation to Generation to Regeneration: The Legacy of Ideas through Song


Conclusion: Singing Ideas in Society: Experience, Song and ‘Passing Through’

Appendix of Songs and Lore

Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Dance and Performance Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Dance and Performance Studies
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Performance Studies, 18th/19th Century History • Performance Studies, History: 18th/19th Century, Anthropology (General), Literary Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-768-8 / 1785337688
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-768-0 / 9781785337680