Bright star of the west : Joe Heaney, Irish song-man / Sean Williams and Lillis O Laoire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Sean, 1959-

Contributor:

Ó Laoire, Lillis, 1961-

Series:

American Musicspheres

American musicspheres

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heaney, Joe, 1919-1984.

Heaney, Joe.

Singers--Ireland--Biography.

Singers.

Sean-nos--Ireland--History and criticism.

Sean-nos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Other Title:

Joe Heaney, Irish song-man

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the life and performance practices of the Irish sean-nØs singer Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Born in Connemara, Heaney grew up speaking the Irish language on a windswept coastal landscape, where he absorbed a rich oral heritage in Irish and in his second language, English.

Contents:

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

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237), discography (p. 239-241), and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).

ISBN:

9780199841028

0199841020

9780190469627

0190469625

9780199840977

0199840970

9781283864107

128386410X

OCLC:

729550833

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31654 hdl