Music, Postcolonialism, And Gender

by Davis, Leith

• ISBN13: 9780268025779
• ISBN10: 0268025770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

A study of the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(23)
Nation and Notation: Irish Music and Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century	24	(30)
Harping on the Past: Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards and the ``Horizontal Brotherhood'' of the Irish Nation	54	(23)
``The United Powers of Female Poesy and Music'': Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry	77	(18)
Sequels of Colonialism: Edward Bunting, the Ancient Irish Music, and the Cultural Politics of Performance	95	(25)
Patriotism and ``Woman's Sentiment'' in Sydney Owenson's Hibernian Melodies and The Wild Irish Girl	120	(20)
A ``Truly National'' Project: Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies and the Gendering of the British Cultural Marketplace	140	(24)
In Moore's Wake: Irish Music in Ireland after the Irish Melodies	164	(22)
Irish Music, British Culture, and the Transatlantic Experience	186	(36)
Afterword	222	(11)
Notes	233	(54)
References	287	(14)
Index	301