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Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era

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Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era book

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era

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Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era book

ByKaren McAulay
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315599199
Pages 294 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315599199
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McAulay, K. (2013). Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315599199

One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

‘Never hitherto published’: Preserving the Highland Heritage

chapter 2|39 pages

‘The aera of Scotish music and Scotish song is now passed’: Lowland Song Collecting, c. 1780–1800

chapter 3|35 pages

‘To take down a melody’: Travel in Pursuit of Song

chapter 4|24 pages

‘Leaving the world to find out whether they are old or new’: Invention or Fakery?

chapter 5|20 pages

‘Which many a bard had chanted many a day’: Paratextual Imagery and Metaphors in Romantic Celtic Song Collections

chapter 6|24 pages

Illustrations and Notes: Stenhouse’s and Hogg’s Quest for Origins, c. 1820

chapter 7|28 pages

Increasing the Knowledge and Improving the Taste, c. 1830–1850

chapter 8|30 pages

‘The Feelings of a Scotsman’ and the Illusion of Origins in the Later Nineteenth Century

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