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Leith Davis - Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1874 - 9780268025779 - V9780268025779
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Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1874

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Description for Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1874 Hardcover. Studying the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, this book focuses on how texts concerning Irish music, and the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song." Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; AVGH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 668.

In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studies 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.” Through her considerations of Irish music collections by the Neals, Edward Bunting, and George Petrie; antiquarian tracts and translations by Joseph Cooper Walker, Charlotte Brooke, and James Hardiman; and lyrics and literary works by Sidney Owenson, Thomas Moore, Samuel Lover, and Dion Boucicault, Davis suggests that music ... Read more

Davis also explores the gender issues so closely related to the discourses on both music and national identity during the time, and the influence of print culture and consumer capitalism on the representation of Irish music at home and abroad. She argues that the emergence of a mass market for culture reconfigured the gendered ambiguities already inherent in the discourses on Irish music and identity.

Davis’s book will appeal to scholars within Irish studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, print culture, new British history, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies, and ethnomusicology.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268025779
SKU
V9780268025779
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About Leith Davis
Leith Davis is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Reviews for Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1874
“Leith Davis’ book . . . is, ambitiously, ‘concerned with how the discourse of music became increasingly gendered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as gender was utilized variously in the representation of both nationalist and colonialist formations.’ . . . Davis traces these knotted lines of resistance and hegemony through eight cogent and convincing essays, each one studying a ... Read more

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