Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

Author: Julie Henigan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1317320670

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Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.