{"product_id":"singing-ideas-performance-politics-and-oral-poetry-9781785337673","title":"Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tConsidered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Structured into three eloquent chapters and a conclusion, the book features a detailed appendix section containing the Irish compositions, the English translations and the music transcriptions, as well as a list of sound recordings, bibliography and discography. As readers, we are left with a thirsty ear, craving to listen to Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire’s musical makings, perhaps hoping to gain an aural glimpse into those ‘liminal moments of sheer potentiality’ that have inspired generations of women, and men, before us.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Scenario\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eSinging Ideas: Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry\u003cem\u003e, presents an innovative take on researching the ephemeral, non-textual archives of oral tradition…Ní Shíocháin’s weaving of frameworks from philosophy and literature in\u003c\/em\u003e Singing Ideas \u003cem\u003ewill be useful to anyone studying performance of the subaltern, embodiment, and unjust political structures of power.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Ethnomusicology Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This excellent book gives a concise, comprehensive overview of oral poetry in a crisply written style, confidently delivered and supported by rigorous scholarship.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Lillis Ó Laoire\u003c\/strong\u003e, National University of Ireland, Galway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Singing Ideas: An Alternative History of Thought\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t(Un)doing History: The Authority of Literacy and the Performativity of Thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOral Trouble and Women’s Voices: Searching for Intellectual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTraditions Beyond the Written Word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSinging Politics and Power in Society: Some Comparative Examples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSeizing Agency: Women of Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBeyond the Limits of Textuality: Performing the Past and Performing Thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. ‘Where Everything Trembles in the Balance’: Song as a Liminal Ludic Space\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Theory of Liminality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPerforming Liminality: Poetry as a Symbolic Marker for Liminality in the Irish Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Journey to the Sacred and Back: The Liminality of the Aisling (Vision)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSong and Oral Poetic Performance as Ritual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSeparating from the Profane: Ekstasis and Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMoments of Potentiality: The Antistructure of Melody and Verse in the Irish Tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Ritual Powers of (Song) Poetry: Satire, Insult and Fearlessness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Potentiality of the Play-Sphere: The Challenging Discourse of Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Singer of Ideas as ‘Seer of Communitas’: The Liminality of Song and the Generation of Ideas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Singing Parrhesia: Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire, Song Performance and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMáire Bhuí Ní Laeire: Nineteenth-Century Song Poet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIrish-Language Song-Making: Poetry as Performance and the Aesthetics of Orality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMultiformity and Oral Formulaic Techniques\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLocal Agrarian Agitation and the Creation of the Poetic Radical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCrisis and Charisma: The Song Poet as Prophet and Truth-Teller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIdentity and the Aesthetics of Orality: New Ideas and the Narrative of Belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFraming the Revolution: Performing Antistructure and the Vision of the Revolution through Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFrom Generation to Generation to Regeneration: The Legacy of Ideas through Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Singing Ideas in Society: Experience, Song and ‘Passing Through’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix of Songs and Lore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042405777751,"sku":"9781785337673","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785337673.jpg?v=1750954050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singing-ideas-performance-politics-and-oral-poetry-9781785337673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}