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The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan’s Secret Songs of Silence

The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan’s Secret Songs of Silence
edited by Murray Shoolbraid, with a foreword by Ed Cray

This is a brilliantly entertaining collection of over 70 bawdy songs and ballads collected in Scotland during the early 1800s. In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan presented an anthology of risqué and convivial songs and ballads dedicated 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 enquiries 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 indecorous content, the manuscript has languished there ever since. The High-Kilted Muse is a magnificent volume that brings the manuscript – its songs and ballads – to life. The edition features an introduction to the compiler, including a treatment of the so-called ‘Peter Buchan controversy’, and the Scottish bawdy tradition, as well as the fully annotated text of more than 70 bawdy songs and ballads. The volume fills a great gap in the study of the lewd.

Murray Shoolbraid is a retired professor of linguistics whose work has been featured in a number of publications.

336 pages
University Press of Mississippi in association with the Elphinstone Institute (Apr 2010)
ISBN-10: 1604734175
ISBN-13: 978-1604734171
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm

Price: £30
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