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Author McAulay, Karen (Karen Elisabeth)

Title Our ancient national airs : Scottish song collecting from the enlightenment to the romantic era / by Karen McAulay.

Publication Info. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Series Preface; Introduction; 1 'Never hitherto published': Preserving the Highland Heritage; 2 'The aera of Scotish music and Scotish song is now passed': Lowland Song Collecting, c. 1780-1800; 3 'To take down a melody': Travel in Pursuit of Song; 4 'Leaving the world to find out whether they are old or new': Invention or Fakery?; 5 'Which many a bard had chanted many a day': Paratextual Imagery and Metaphors in Romantic Celtic Song Collections.
6 Illustrations and Notes: Stenhouse's and Hogg's Quest for Origins, c. 18207 Increasing the Knowledge and Improving the Taste, c. 1830-1850; 8 'The Feelings of a Scotsman' and the Illusion of Origins in the Later Nineteenth Century; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence.
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Subject Folk songs, Scots -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
Folk songs, Scots.
Scotland.
Folk music -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
Folk music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781409450191 1409450198 (DLC) 2012030422
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1409450198 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)