Making Song Travel: Crosscurrents of Language and Landscape in Welsh and Scottish Song Collections, 1804–1818

Edwards, Elizabeth and McCue, Kirsteen (2024) Making Song Travel: Crosscurrents of Language and Landscape in Welsh and Scottish Song Collections, 1804–1818. Studies in Romanticism, 63 (2). (In Press)

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Abstract

From the second half of the eighteenth century onwards, song collections gave dramatic presence to the distinctive landscapes, histories and traditions of the nations and regions of Britain and Ireland. This essay analyses some of the musical, linguistic and cultural features of ‘national airs’ through case studies from Scotland and Wales. Focussing on editors John Parry, George Thomson and Alexander Campbell, we trace crosscurrents of travel, language and translation revealing how Romantic songs move unpredictably between manuscript and print, beyond national borders and across lines of class – powerfully shaping the cultural and political imagination of the Celtic-speaking countries in the process.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music > M Music
M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Depositing User: Elizabeth Edwards
Date Deposited: 15 May 2024 16:14
Last Modified: 11 Sep 2024 17:05
URI: https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2964

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