Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era
- Author: McAulay, Karen
Book
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Contents
- 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.