Music, postcolonialism, and gender
Subtitle: the construction of Irish national identity, 1724-1874
By: Leith Davis.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Music -- Ireland -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Ireland -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Popular culture -- Ireland -- History; Gender identity -- Ireland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nation and notation : Irish music and print culture in the eighteenth century; title: Harping on the past : Joseph Cooper Walker's historical memoirs of the Irish bards and the "horizontal brotherhood" of the Irish nation; title: "The united powers of female poesy and music" : Charlotte Brooke's reliques of Irish poetry; title: Sequels of colonialism : Edward Bunting, the ancient Irish music, and the cultural politics of performance; title: Patriotism and "woman's sentiment" in Sydney Owenson's hibernian melodies and the wild Irish girl; title: A "truly national" project : Thomas Moore's Irish melodies and the gendering of the British cultural marketplace; title: In Moore's wake : Irish music in Ireland after the Irish melodies; title: Irish music, British culture, and the transatlantic experience.