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100 1 $aRohs, Stephen A.$q(Stephen Albert)
245 10 $aEccentric nation :$bIrish performance in nineteenth-century New York City /$cStephen Rohs.
260 $aMadison [N.J.] :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a262 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aResistance as community : "the bold soldier boy" and the know nothing crisis -- Cultural minstrelsy's romantic Irish : The Colleen Bawn, accommodation, and the marketplace -- Remembered traditions : the Galloglach, "Boyne water," and the 1871 Orange Riot -- The Mulligan guard ball : Irish minstrels and urban spectacles.
520 $aThe book takes as its point of departure the notion that a nation's music and performance culture was, in the nineteenth century, conceived of as the voice of its people. From ballads to parades to plays to orations, these cultural forms carried the burden of staging an identity for the national community and for the onlooking eyes of outsiders.
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