Lullabies and battle cries: music, identity and emotion among Republican parading bands in Northern Ireland

Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identi...

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Main Author: Rollins, Jaime (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2018]
Series:Dance and performance studies Volume 13
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Online Access:DE-1043
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Summary:Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in republican parading bands, with a focus on how this music continues to be utilized in a post-conflict climate. As author Jaime Rollins shows, rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities within continually shifting dynamics of republican culture
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 255 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781785339226
DOI:10.1515/9781785339226