A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity: Scotland’s Printed Music, 1880–1951

Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books' contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been dismissed as not significant or indeed, properly 'old' enough to merit consideration.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 An Era of Opportunity for James S. Kerr and Mozart Allan
2 Nights Out Dancing and Evenings with the Children: Enduring Kerr and Mozart Allan Titles
3 The Saleability of Scottish (and Irish) Songs
4 Education, Preservation, Organisation
5 Expanding Horizons
6 Multimedia Technology, from Magic Lanterns to Recordings and Broadcasts
7 Publishing 'Classical' Music in Scotland
Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Karen E. McAulay is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her book Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era was published by Ashgate in 2013. She has contributed chapters to Understanding Scotland Musically and Music by Subscription (2018, 2022, both Routledge).

Zusammenfassung

Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books’ contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been dismissed as not significant or indeed, properly ‘old’ enough to merit consideration.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen E. McAulay
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032389202
• ISBN: 978-1-032-38920-2
• Seiten: 208
• Gewicht: 453 g
• Illustration: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Serie: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, Scotland, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, British & Irish history, Romanticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music