Sean Williams, Lillis Ó Laoire

Bright Star of the West (eBook, PDF)

Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man

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Produktbeschreibung

Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Best known for popularing this form of Gaelic a cappella folk song in the United States, authors Sean Williams and Lillis ? Laoire reveal the ways in which Heaney's life story demonstrates the intertwining of music with political memory and cultural understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199840977
• Artikelnr.: 40064774

Autorenporträt

Sean Williams teaches ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, and Asian Studies at The Evergreen State College. She has written and edited several books, including The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java (2001) and Focus: Irish Traditional Music (2010). Lillis Ó Laoire is an award winning Gaelic singer, scholar, and writer from the Gaelic speaking region of Donegal, Ireland. He teaches courses in Gaelic language, culture and folklore at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and his publications include On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Singing the Dark Away
1.: Sean-nós Singing
1. Sean-nós Singing in Theory and Practice
2. The Performance of Sean-nós in Connemara
2.: The Iconic Repertoire
3. Singing the Famine
4. The Religious Laments
5. The Medieval Transformed
3.: Masculinity in a Musical Context
6. Irish Masculinities: The Irish Tenor and the Sean-nós Singer
7. Fighting Words, Fighting Music: The Performative Male
4.: Joe Heaney in America
8. The Irishman at the Threshold
9. The Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity
Guide to Pronunciation
References
Discography
Index