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Title:

Crossroads : performance studies and Irish culture / edited by Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Ireland--Civilization.
Performing arts--Ireland.
Arts and society--Ireland.
Ireland--Cultural policy.

Other Authors:

Brady, Sara.
Walsh, Fintan, Dr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : identity politics and national agendas in the 2007 St. Patrick's Festival / Holly Maples. Tradition, ritual, and play. Performing Ireland : a performative approach to the study of Irish culture : Jack Santino ; Performing tradition / Bernadette Sweeney ; Sporting 'Irish' identities : performance and the Gaelic games / Sara Brady ; It's beyond Candide-it's s̆vejk : wise foolery in the work of Jack Lynch, storyteller / Mike Wilson ; Traditional Irish music in the twenty-first century : networks, technology, and the negotiation of authenticity / Scott Spencer -- Place, landscape, and commemoration. Tapping secrecies of stone : Irish roads as performances of movement, measurement, and memory : J'aime Morrison ; Commenoration and the performance of Irish Famine memory / Emily Mark FitzGerald ; Performing 'the Troubles' : murals and the spectacle of commemorations of violence at Free Derry Corner / Matthew Spangler ; St. Patrick's purgatory and the performance of pilgrimage / David Cregan -- Political performances. De Valera performs the oath : word, voice, book, and act / Ame Puljiu ; Between the living and the dead : performative 'in-betweens' in the work of Alastair MacLennan / Carmen Szabó ; Jus soli/jus sanguinis : the biopolitics of performing Irishness / Matthew Causey -- Gender, feminism, and queer performance. Ghosting Bridgie Cleary : Tom Mac Intyre and staging this woman's death / Charlotte McIvor ; Challenging patriarchal imagery : Amanda Coogan's performance art / Gabriella Calchi Novati ; Homelysexuality and the 'beauty' pageant / Fintan Walsh -- Diaspora, Migration, and globalization. Taking Northern Irish identity on the road : the Smithsonian Folklife Festival of 2007 / E. Moore Quinn ; Who's laughing now : Comic currents for a new Irish audience / Eric Weitz ; Parading multicultural Ireland : identity politics and national agendas in the 2007 St. Patrick's Festival / Holly Maples.

ISBN:

0230219985
9780230219984

OCLC:

(OCoLC)294885552

LCCN:

2010292652

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)