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The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence
Contributor(s): Shoolbraid, Murray (Editor), Cray, Ed (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1604734175     ISBN-13: 9781604734171
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $54.45  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 782.421
LCCN: 2009031477
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Shoolbraid, Murray: -

Murray Shoolbraid is a retired professor of linguistics and Russian. He is the author of The Oral Epic of Siberia and Central Asia, and his work has been published in several folklore journals.