Singing Ideas
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-182-0 (ISBN)
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.
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).
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dance and Performance Studies |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80073-182-5 / 1800731825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80073-182-0 / 9781800731820 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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