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Contents
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
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Tríona Ní Shíocháin
214 pages, 11 figures, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-767-3 Hb Published (December 2017)
eISBN 978-1-78533-768-0 eBook