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

by Karen McAulay

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138279293
• ISBN13: 9781138279292
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"