Karen Mcaulay

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317084754
• Artikelnr.: 45096040

Autorenporträt

Karen McAulay is Music and Academic Services Librarian at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her research explores the interface between antiquarian fact-finding and artistic creativity; the parallels between literary and musical fakery in the early Romantic era; and the use of metaphor in the paratexts of song collections in the early nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
'Never hitherto published': preserving the Highland heritage
'The aera of Scotish music and Scotish song is now passed': Lowland song collecting, c. 1780-1800
'To take down a melody': travel in pursuit of song
'Leaving the world to find out whether they are old or new': invention or fakery?
'Which many a bard had chanted many a day': paratextual imagery and metaphors in Romantic Celtic song collections
Illustrations and notes: Stenhouse's and Hogg's quest for origins, c. 1820
Increasing the knowledge and improving the taste, c. 1830-1850
'The feelings of a Scotsman' and the illusion of origins in the later 19th century
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.