Alias MacAlias

Alias MacAlias

Author: Hamish Henderson

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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He was well-known as a songwriter and poet (his collection Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1949) and as a pioneer in the field of Scottish folk studies and song collecting.


Avant-folk

Avant-folk

Author: Ross Hair

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1781383294

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A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present.


Voice of the People

Voice of the People

Author: Corey Gibson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1474403670

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Examining Hamish Henderson's search for the radical voice of the people in modern ScotlandHow might the alienation of the artist in modern Scotland be overcome? How do you incite a popular folk revival? Can a poet truly speak with the voice of the people And what happens to the writer who rejects print culture in favour of becoming Anon.? The life and times of polymath, scholar, author and folk-hero, Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poses, and helps us to answer, these questions. This book examines his life-long commitment to finding a form of artistic expression suitable for post-war Europe. Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained through anecdotes and radical folk songs. This study explores his ideas in their intellectual, cultural and political contexts. It describes how all of his works in war poetry, song collection, folklore scholarship, folksong revivalism, literary translation, and vicious public debates reflect this desire to see the artist fully reintegrated in society.Key Features:Reclaims Hamish Henderson from the marginalia of Scottish literary historyProvides a hitherto unexplored perspective on twentieth-century Scottish cultural historySituates Scottish literary and cultural debates in the broader context of intellectual and cultural developments in twentieth-century Europe and the USDirectly tackles the question of national identity in twentieth-century Scotland


Mac OS X Hints

Mac OS X Hints

Author: Rob Griffiths

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780596004514

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Presented in an easy-to-follow cross-referenced format, Mac OS X Hints allowsMac users to get the most out of Mac OS X 10.2.


The Armstrong Nose

The Armstrong Nose

Author: Hamish Henderson

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Born in 1919 in Perthshire, Hamish Henderson served in the WWII and went on to work at the School of Scottish Studies until his retirement in the late 1980s. Henderson's correspondence charts his life and concerns and in doing so illuminates the life of a nation. This book focuses on the correspondence between Henderson and MacDiarmid.


The Highland Bagpipe

The Highland Bagpipe

Author: Joshua Dickson

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0754694631

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The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. However, since the bagpipeOCOs unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s, a greater interest in the emic has led the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. The contributors of this collection discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, as well as those interested in international bagpipe studies and traditions."


The Mac OS X Command Line

The Mac OS X Command Line

Author: Kirk McElhearn

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-09-18

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0470113855

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The Mac command line offers a faster, easier way to accomplish many tasks. It's also the medium for many commands that aren't accessible using the GUI. The Mac OS X Command Line is a clear, concise, tutorial-style introduction to all the major functionality provided by the command line. It's also packed with information the experienced users need, including little-known shortcuts and several chapters devoted to advanced topics. This is a book to get you started, but also a book you won’t soon outgrow.


The High-Kilted Muse

The High-Kilted Muse

Author: Murray Shoolbraid

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2010-04-02

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1604734310

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In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made inquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript languished there since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items from time to time made an appearance. The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details of Buchan's two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a long-suppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and ballads.


Scottish Traveller Tales

Scottish Traveller Tales

Author: Donald Braid

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781578064502

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The only book that closely examines this fascinating storytelling culture of Scotland


Traveller Storytelling in Scotland

Traveller Storytelling in Scotland

Author: Robert Fell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2024-08-19

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1399526375

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This book unravels the complexities of traditional storytelling and uses creative analytical techniques to uncover the meanings of the stories we tell. The reader is first acquainted with conceptualisations of how stories make meaning in our lives, then guided through a selection of stories from the rich traditions of Scotland’s Traveller and Nawken/Nacken communities. Beginning with a nuanced historical overview of the communities, Traveller Storytelling in Scotland: Folklore, Ideology and Cultural Identity then draws on archives, texts and interviews to introduce readers to the unique and vibrant folklore of Scotland’s Travellers and Nawken/Nacken. It connects ethnology and literary criticism to contextualise folklore and reveal how its ideological priorities underpin cultural identity. Utilising diverse analytical techniques, this book is a timely examination of a folkloric idiom that has, until now, been sorely in need of further scrutiny. It showcases the sophistication and enduring relevance of folkloric expressions to contemporary Scottish culture.