Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724-1874

by Leith Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268025789
• ISBN13: 9780268025786
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"