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Music, postcolonialism, and gender : the construction of Irish national identity, 1724-1874

Title
Music, postcolonialism, and gender : the construction of Irish national identity, 1724-1874 / Leith Davis.
Author
Davis, Leith, 1960-
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Description
xiv, 323 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.
Contents
1. Nation and notation : Irish music and print culture in the eighteenth century -- 2. Harping on the past : Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical memoirs of the Irish bards and the "horizontal brotherhood" of the Irish nation -- 3. "The united powers of female poesy and music" : Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry -- 4. Sequels of colonialism : Edward Bunting, the Ancient Irish music, and the cultural politics of performance -- 5. Patriotism and "woman's sentiment" in Sydney Owenson's Hibernian melodies and The wild Irish girl -- 6. A "truly national" project : Thomas Moore's Irish melodies and the gendering of the British cultural marketplace -- 7. In Moore's wake : Irish music in Ireland after the Irish melodies -- 8. Irish music, British culture, and the transatlantic experience.
ISBN
  • 0268025770 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0268025789
LCCN
  • 2005029467
  • 9780268025779 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC
  • OCM62090774
  • SCSB-9092027
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Columbia University Libraries