Cover Image

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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Williams, Sean, 1959- (Author), Ó Laoire, Lillis, 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:American musicspheres.
Subjects:
Heaney, Joe, > 1919-1984.
Heaney, Joe, > 1919-1984
Sean-nos > Ireland > History and criticism.
Singers > Ireland > Biography.
Sean-nós > Irlande > Histoire et critique.
Chanteurs > Irlande > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
Sean-nos
Singers
Ireland
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Sean-nós Singing. Sean-nós singing in theory and practice
  • The performance of Sean-nós in connemara.
  • 2. The Iconic Repertoire. Singing the famine
  • The religious laments
  • The medieval transformed.
  • 3. Masculinity in a Musical Context. Irish masculinities : the Irish tenor and the Sean-nós singer
  • Fighting words, fighting music : the performative male.
  • 4. Joe Heaney in America. The Irishman at the threshold
  • The folk revival and the search for authenticity.