Transcribing Voices, Fashioning a Genre: Orality, Hybridity, and Inventiveness in James Oswald's Songs from Ossian.
A volume of songs with tunes, The Pocket Companion for the Guittar (n.d.), issued in London by the Scottish composer and music publisher James Oswald, contains nine songs from the poems of Ossian that were purportedly taken down from the singing of James Macpherson, their originator. This essay exam...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 25 - 58 |
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Jan-Apr2022
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