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

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dc.contributor.advisorKieffer, Alexandraen_US
dc.creatorWebb, Emma G.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T21:59:01Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-05-21T21:59:01Zen_US
dc.date.created2024-05en_US
dc.date.issued2024-04-19en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2024en_US
dc.date.updated2024-05-21T21:59:01Zen_US
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.en_US
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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/1911/116147en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/116147en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectIrish musicen_US
dc.subjectfolken_US
dc.subjectnationalismen_US
dc.subjectOrientalismen_US
dc.subjectYoung Irelanden_US
dc.subjectorigin mythologyen_US
dc.subjectaislingen_US
dc.subjectThe Nationen_US
dc.subjectSpirit of the Nationen_US
dc.subjectMilesianen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectIrish historyen_US
dc.titleCelts, Saxons, and Milesians: Orientalized Nationalism in Young Irelander Balladsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentMusicologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineMusicen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Musicen_US
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