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Folk music --- Folk songs, Scots --- Folklore --- Romanies --- Folklore.

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This book offers a detailed analysis of two major Scottish folk song collections, the Greig-Duncan Collection, and the Scots folk song material of the School of Scottish Studies Archives. This exhaustive study of song transmission includes all contributors, not only notable singers. The scattered information, marshalled into quantifiable data, throws light on such topics as transmission within and outside the family, the role of literacy, the public reticence of women singers, the association between the Travellers and the big ballads, and the impact of social changes in the late nineteenth century, and of broadcast music in the 1920s. The new opportunities opened up by digitisation are explored here for the first time.

Folk singers --- Folk songs, Scots --- Music --- Sources --- Social aspects --- History

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Folk songs, Scots. --- Ballads, Scots. --- Ballads, English. --- Folk songs, English. --- Borders Region (Scotland).

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Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context. Attention is given to some of the performance issues raised, either in correspondence or in the paratexts of published collections; and the narrative is interlaced with references to contemporary literary, social and even political history as it affected the collectors themselves. Most significantly, this study demonstrates a resurgence

Folk songs, Scots --- Folk music --- Folk-songs, Scottish --- Scots folk songs --- Scottish ballads and songs --- History and criticism.