Highland Songs of the Forty-five
Author: John Lorne Campbell
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 376
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Highland Songs of the Forty-five
Author: John Lorne Campbell
Publisher: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 398
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Author: John Lorne Campbell
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 347
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song
Author: Lauchie MacLellan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2001-02-21
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0773568514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and references, as well as photos and maps. In an era of growing appreciation of Celtic cultures, Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song makes an important Gaelic tradition available to the general reader. The materials also serve as a unique, adaptable resource for those with more specialized research or teaching interests in ethnology/folklore, Canadian studies, Gaelic language, ethnomusicology, Celtic studies, anthropology, and social history.
Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788
Author: Allan I. MacInnes
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2022-07-07
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1788854047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service between chiefs and gentry and their clansmen. Its demise is attributed to the throwing over of these personal obligations by the clan elite, not to legislation or central government repression. The book discusses the impact on the clans of the inevitable shift, with the passage of time, from feudalism to capitalism, regardless of the "Forty Five". It draws upon estate papers, family correspondence, financial compacts, social bonds and recorded oral tradition rather than the biased records of central government.
The Invention of Scotland (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Murray G. H. Pittock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 131760525X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland. Murray Pittock traces the Stuart myth from the days of Charles I to the modern Scottish National Party, and discusses both pro- and anti-Union propaganda. He provides a unique insight into the ‘radicalism’ of Scottish Jacobitism, contrasting this ‘Jacobitisim of the Left’ with the sentimental image constructed by the Victorians. Dealing with a subject of great relevance to modern British society, this reissue provides an extensive analysis of Scottish nationhood, the Stuart cult and Jacobite ideology. It will be of great interest to students of literature, history, and Scottish culture and politics.
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-01-06
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 1780574193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Hugh MacDiarmid, the Companion also lists many minor writers whose work might otherwise have been overlooked in any survey of Scottish literature. Also included here are entries on the lives of other more peripheral writers such as historians, philosophers, diarists and divines whose work has made a contribution to Scottish letters. Other essays range over such general subjects as the principal work of major writers, literary movements, historical events, the world of printing and publishing, folklore, journalism, drama and Gaelic. A feature of the book is the inclusion of the bibliography of each writer and reference to the major critical works. This comprehensive guide is an essential tool for the serious student of Scottish literature as well as being an ideal guide and companion for the general reader.
Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800
Author: Louis Kirk McAuley
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1611485444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Print Technology in Scotland and America Louis Kirk McAuley investigatesthe mediation of popular-political culturein Scotland and America, from thetransatlantic religious revivals known as theGreat Awakening to the U.S. presidentialelection of 1800. By focusing on Scotlandand America—and, in particular, thetension between unity and fragmentationthat characterizes eighteenth-centuryScottish and American literature andculture—Print Technology aims to increaseour understanding of how tensions withinthese corresponding political and culturalarenas altered the meaning of printas an instrument of empire and nationbuilding. McAuley reveals how seeminglydisparate events, including journalism andliterary forgery, were instrumental andinnovative deployments of print not as a liberation technology (as Habermas’s analysis of print's structural transformation of the public sphere suggests), but as a mediator of political tensions.
Reading Robert Burns
Author: Carol McGuirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1317317343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work.
Gaelic Scotland
Author: Charles W J Withers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1317332806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
