Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song
Author: Julie Henigan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317320670

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.