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Author : Gavin Greig,James Bruce Duncan
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106016473842
The folk songs collected by Gavin Greig and Reverend James B. Duncan in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 1906566011
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Author : Patrick N. Shuldham-Shaw,Emily B. Lyle,Peter A. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Folk music
ISBN : UCSC:32106014790569
Author : Gavin Greig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UOM:39015039143204
Author : Caroline Macafee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004464414
In Scots Folk Singers and their Sources, Caroline Macafee offers a detailed analysis of song transmission in two major Scottish folk song collections, the Greig-Duncan Collection, and the Scots folk song material of the School of Scottish Studies Archives.
Author : Anna Kearney Guigné
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780776623856
In 1951, musician Kenneth Peacock (1922–2000) secured a contract from the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History) to collect folksongs in Newfoundland. As the province had recently joined Confederation, the project was deemed a goodwill gesture, while at the same time adding to the Museum’s meager Anglophone archival collections. Between 1951 and 1961, over the course of six field visits, Peacock collected 766 songs and melodies from 118 singers in 38 communities, later publishing two-thirds of this material in a three-volume collection, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965). As the publication consists of over 1000 pages, Outports is considered to be a bible for Newfoundland singers and a valuable resource for researchers. However, Peacock’s treatment of the material by way of tune-text collations, use of lines and stanzas from unpublished songs has always been somewhat controversial. Additionally, comparison of the field collection with Outports indicates that although Peacock acquired a range of material, his personal preferences requently guided his publishing agenda. To ensure that the songs closely correspond to what the singers presented to Peacock, the collection has been prepared by drawing on Peacock’s original music and textual notes and his original field recordings. The collection is far-ranging and eclectic in that it includes British and American broadsides, musical hall and vaudeville material alongside country and western songs, and local compositions. It also highlights the influence of popular media on the Newfoundland song tradition and contextualizes a number of locally composed songs. In this sense, it provides a key link between what Peacock actually recorded and the material he eventually published. As several of the songs have not previously appeared in the standard Newfoundland collections, The Forgotten Songs sheds new light on the extent of Peacock’s collecting. The collection includes 125 songs arranged under 113 titles along with extensive notes on the songs, and brief biographies of the 58 singers. Thanks to the Research Centre for the Study of Music Media and Place, a video of the launch event, held in St.John's, Newfoundland, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghj6E6-QiLI&t=21s.
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748672660
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Author : David Atkinson,Steve Roud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317049210
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
Author : Ian A. Olson
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788855402
In the summer of 1411, the ageing Donald of Isla, Lord of the Isles, invaded mainland Scotland with a huge, battle-hardened army, only to be fought to a bloody standstill on the plateau of Harlaw, fifteen miles from Aberdeen, a town he had threatened to sack. One of the greatest battles in Scottish history, described by hardened mediaeval chroniclers as 'atrocious', 'Reid Harlaw' left some 3,000 dead and wounded. Dismissed by Scott as a 'Celt v. Saxon' power struggle, it has faded from historical memory, other than in the north-east of Scotland. Written records in Latin, Scots, Gaelic and English are presented in their original form, and with transcriptions and translations. Two major ballads are analysed, one contemporary, and one fabricated over 350 years later - which is still sung. Lowland views dominate, because of the loss and destruction of Highland records, notably those of the Lords of the Isles themselves. The histories themselves fall into two groups - those written at or around the time, and those composed some 300 years later.These later accounts form the basis of most modern descriptions of the battle, but they tend to be romantic and highly imaginative, creating noble order where chaos once existed.
Author : David Atkinson,Steve Roud
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527502758
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
Author : Marek Korczynski,Michael Pickering,Emma Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107000179
Whether for weavers at the handloom, laborers at the plough, or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialization. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialization, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music While You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labor explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.
Author : Gavin Greig,James Bruce Duncan
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106016473842
The folk songs collected by Gavin Greig and Reverend James B. Duncan in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Alexander Fenton,Margaret A. Mackay
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907909214
The publication of An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context. Each of the thirteen volumes already published focuses on a particular theme or institution within Scottish society. This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.
Author : Edith Fowke,Jay Rahn,LaRena LeBarr Clark
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781895176360
New folk music and folk-song materials in this comprehensive study are particularly important for singers, folk music enthusiasts, ethnomusicologists, comparative and cultural studies scholars, and those interested in Canadian culture. LaRena Clark was a great singer and knew many fine songs. Her wide repertoire covers almost the complete range of types and topics of traditional Anglo-Canadian songs. Comparison with other collections in Canada, the United States, the British Isles, and Australia indicate just how unique and far-reaching it was. Clark's background and her varied ancestry shaped her repertoire. The account of her parents' activities gives a vivid picture of folk life in rural Ontario during the early years of this century. She knew some Canadian songs previously unreported, and she wrote songs with a strong Canadian flavour. Musically, Clark's songs are a microcosm of practices characteristic of British folk music throughout the English-speaking world. Particularly noteworthy is her constant reworking of traditional materials, procedures, forms, and individual tunes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rymour Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781068604638
Jock Duncan: The Man and his Songs is a collection of songs transcribed from the singing of Jock Duncan (1925-2021), a revered singer of songs from the North-east of Scotland. The collection is published with the permission of surviving members of his family. It includes not only the words of the songs but also the tunes, noted and transcribed by the editor. Including are detailed notes on the songs and the tunes and a biography of Jock Duncan.
