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Bright star of the west: Joe Heaney, Irish song-man

Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire c2011 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780199841028 (ebook)
  • 9780195321180 (hardcover)
  • 9780190469627 (paper)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: Singing the Dark Away (page 3)
  • I Sean-nós Singing (page 25)
    • 1. Sean-nós Singing in Theory and Practice (page 27)
    • 2. The Performance of Sean-nós in Connemara (page 47)
  • II The Iconic Repertoire (page 69)
    • 3. Singing the Famine (page 71)
    • 4. The Religious Laments (page 89)
    • 5. The Medieval Transformed (page 111)
  • III Masculinity in a Musical Context (page 137)
    • 6. Irish Masculinities: The Irish Tenor and the Sean-nós Singer (page 139)
    • 7. Fighting Words, Fighting Music: The Performative Male (page 157)
  • IV Joe Heaney in America (page 177)
    • 8. The Irishman at the Threshold (page 179)
    • 9. The Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity (page 197)
  • Guide to Pronunciation (page 213)
  • Notes (page 215)
  • References (page 229)
  • Discography (page 239)
  • Index (page 243)
Reviews
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NHR 17.1 (Spring 2013): 155-157 https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_hibernia_review/v017/17.1.harte.html
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