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Author Davis, Leith, 1960- author.

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages) : illustrations
Contents Nation and notation : Irish music and print culture in the eighteenth century -- Harping on the past : Joseph Cooper Walker's historical memoirs of the Irish bards and the "horizontal brotherhood" of the Irish nation -- "The united powers of female poesy and music" : Charlotte Brooke's reliques of Irish poetry -- Sequels of colonialism : Edward Bunting, the ancient Irish music, and the cultural politics of performance -- Patriotism and "woman's sentiment" in Sydney Owenson's Hibernian melodies and The wild Irish girl -- A "truly national" project : Thomas Moore's Irish melodies and the gendering of the British cultural marketplace -- In Moore's wake : Irish music in Ireland after the Irish melodies -- Irish music, British culture, and the transatlantic experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Music -- Ireland -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Music -- Ireland -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Popular culture -- Ireland -- History
Gender identity -- Ireland
Gender identity
Music
Popular culture
Ireland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005029467
ISBN 9780268203689
0268203687