Bright Star Of The West Joe Heaney Irish Songman

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This book explores the life and performance practices of the Irish sean-nØs singer Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Born in Connemara, Heaney grew up speaking the Irish language on a windswept coastal landscape, where he absorbed a rich oral heritage in Irish and in his second language, English.

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Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	250
Search language	english
ISBN_13	978-0-195-32118-0 primary

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