How Long to Read Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era

How Long Does it Take to Read Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era by Ms Karen McAulay

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

One of the earliest documented Scottish song collectors actually to go 'into the field' to gather his specimens, was the Highlander Joseph Macdonald. Macdonald emigrated in 1760 - contemporaneously with the start of James Macpherson's famous but much disputed Ossian project - and it fell to the Revd. Patrick Macdonald to finish and subsequently publish his younger brother's collection. Karen McAulay traces the complex history of Scottish song collecting, and the publication of major Highland and Lowland collections, over the ensuing 130 years. Looking at sources, authenticity, collecting methodology and format, McAulay places these collections in their cultural context and traces links with contemporary attitudes towards such wide-ranging topics as the embryonic tourism and travel industry; cultural nationalism; fakery and forgery; literary and musical creativity; and the move from antiquarianism and dilettantism towards an increasingly scholarly and didactic tone in the mid-to-late Victorian collections. 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 of cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth century.

How long is Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era?

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era by Ms Karen McAulay is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era aloud.

What Reading Level is Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era?

Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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