Celts, Saxons, and Milesians: Orientalized Nationalism in Young Irelander Ballads

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dc.contributor.advisorKieffer, Alexandra
dc.creatorWebb, Emma G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T21:59:01Z
dc.date.available2024-05-21T21:59:01Z
dc.date.created2024-05
dc.date.issued2024-04-19
dc.date.submittedMay 2024
dc.date.updated2024-05-21T21:59:01Z
dc.description.abstractIn resistance to the British Empire, the nineteenth-century political group known as Young Ireland promoted a bold Irish nationalism in their journal, The Nation, and ballad collection, The Spirit of the Nation. These ballads, intended to rejuvenate Irish musical culture, involved long-standing Orientalist pseudo-histories that traced Irish ancestry to eastern civilizations, namely the Phoenicians and Milesians. In opposition to British utilitarianism and white-on-white racism, these imagined identities helped articulate Young Ireland’s racial politics, as they interpolated a novel kind of nationalism into Irish traditional music. However, an examination of Young Ireland’s musical practices—their approach to setting traditional airs using recycled Jacobite poetic genres—reveals a friction in racial politics involving ideas of Orientalism, uplift, and Anglicization. These conclusions expand the current understandings of Orientalism in Irish music and lead to a deeper understanding of the complexities of Orientalism in Irish culture and history.
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dc.identifier.citationWebb, Emma. Celts, Saxons, and Milesians: Orientalized Nationalism in Young Irelander Ballads. (2024). Masters thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116147
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/116147
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectIreland
dc.subjectIrish music
dc.subjectfolk
dc.subjectnationalism
dc.subjectOrientalism
dc.subjectYoung Ireland
dc.subjectorigin mythology
dc.subjectaisling
dc.subjectThe Nation
dc.subjectSpirit of the Nation
dc.subjectMilesian
dc.subjectColonialism
dc.subjectIrish history
dc.titleCelts, Saxons, and Milesians: Orientalized Nationalism in Young Irelander Ballads
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentMusicology
thesis.degree.disciplineMusic
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Music
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