Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Scots Folk Singers and Their Sources
Author: Caroline MacafeePublisher: Scroll: Scottish Cultural Revi
ISBN: 9789004464407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Introduction -- Weighing the Catch -- Did Greig and Duncan Neglect the Travellers? -- Song Transmission -- The Reticence of Female Singers -- The Devolution of the Child Ballads to the Travellers -- Social Change and Education versus Tradition -- The Missing Singers of the 1920s -- Conclusions.
The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries
Author: Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
Author: Sarah DunniganPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748645411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present. Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland's rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.
The proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with notes by A. Hislop
Author: Alexander Hislop (publisher)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Vagabond songs and ballads of Scotland. Ed., with notes, by R. Ford
Author: Robert FordScottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)
Author: David BuchanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317550056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms as wonder tales or Märhcen, classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends, and guisers’ plays. The texts chosen cover the main regional traditions of Lowland Scotland, from Galloway to the Shetlands, and span a number of centuries, through both pre- and post-industrial periods, from a sailor’s worksong of the sixteenth century to modern urban legends just recently recorded. The book is arranged in four sections, on Folk Narrative, Folksong, Folksay, and Folk Drama, each with an introduction and a bibliographical essay setting the material in context and indicating some of its international links. Folk literature itself is brought into firm focus by discussion and generic example, and the anthology as a whole illuminates substantial areas of Scottish social and cultural life.
Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Traditional and National Music of Scotland
Author: Francis CollinsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000436454
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including little-known types of Gaelic song, the bagpipes and their music, including the esoteric subject of pibroch, the Ceol Mor or ‘Great Music’ of the pipes. It gives a comprehensive review of the fiddle composers and their music, and of the Clarsach and its revival, with an example of all-but-extinct Scottish harp music. A chapter is devoted to the music of Orkney and Shetland and the book contains over 100 examples of music many of which were from the author’s own collection and published here for the first time.
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.