'Course Bibliography for 6MPW Broadside Ballads: Print
and Popular Culture in 19th and 20th Century Scotland',
University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus'.
To make this section a little more user friendly it has been split up into three sections;
Bibliography, Discography and Links.
CORE TEXTS
Philip V Bohlman, The study of folk music in the modern
world (Bloomington : Indiana University Press), c1988
*David Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk (East Linton: Tuckwell Press), 1997.
*Edward J.Cowan, The Ballad in Scottish History (East Linton: Tuckwell Press), 2000.
Dianne Dugaw, Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press), 1989.
William Donaldson, Popular literature in Victorian Scotland: language, fiction and the
press (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press), 1986.
Hamish Henderson, The Muckle Sangs CD; booklet (Cockenzie, East Lothian: Greentrax), 1992.
William Nicholson, The Collected Poems of William Nicholson, "The Bard of
Galloway" ed John Hudson, (Wigtown: G.C.), 1999
Leslie Shepard, The Broadside Ballad: a study in origins and meaning (London: Jenkins),
1962.
Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music (New Brunswick: Rutgers),
1966.
*Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition as History, (Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1985)
SECONDARY TEXTS
Flemming G. Anderson, Commonplace and creativity (Odense:
Odense University Press, 1985).
Bertrand Bronson, The ballad as song (Berkeley, California: University of California
Press, 1969).
Francis James Child, English and Scottish popular ballads. Many editions.
Mary Anne Constantine, ed, Breton Ballads (Aberystwyth : CMCS Publications), 1996.
Thomas Crawford, ed, Love, labour and liberty: the eighteenth century Scottish lyric,
(Cheadle: Carcanet Press, 1976)
_____, Society and the Lyric: a study of the song culture of eighteenth century Scotland,
(Edinburgh: Scottish Academic
Press, 1984)
Tristram P. Coffin, The British traditional ballad in North America (Philadelphia:
American Folklore Society,
1963).
Francis Collinson, The traditional and national music of Scotland (London: Routledge,
1966).
Sheila Douglas, The Sang’s the thing: voices from lowland Scotland, (Edinburgh:
Polygon, 1995)
Dianne Dugaw, ed, The Anglo-American ballad : a folklore casebook, (New York ; London :
Garland, 1995).
Gordon Hall Gerould, The Ballad of Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon, 1932).
Pauline Greenhill, True Poetry: Traditional and Popular Verse in Ontario (Montreal:
McGill-Queens University
Press, 1989).
M.J.C. Hodgart, The Ballads (London: Hutchinson, 1950).
Malcolm Laws, American Balladry from British Broadsides (Philadelphia, 1957).
MacEdward Leach, The Ballad Book (New York: Harper, 1955)
_____, and Tristram P. Coffin, eds, The critics and the ballad: readings 1961.
Tom Leonard, ed, Radical Renfrew: poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War
by poets born, or sometime
resident in, the county of Renfrewshire, (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990).
John A Lomax, and Alan Lomax, American ballads and folk songs (New York: Dover), 1994.
William B. McCarthy, The ballad matrix : personality, milieu, and the oral tradition.
(Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1990).
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor. Several editions available.
Ailie Munro, The Democratic Muse: Folk Music Revival in Scotland (Aberdeen: Scottish
Cultural Press, 1996).
James Porter, ed. The Ballad Image (Los Angeles: University of California, 1983).
_____, Jeannie Robertson: emergent singer, transformative voice, (East Linton: Tuckwell,
1999)
W. Edson Richmond, Ballad Scholarship (New York: Garland, 1989).
Walter. H. Rubsamen, Scottish Ballad Operas, 3 Vols, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1974)
Deborah A. Symonds, Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads & Infanticide in early modern
Scotland
(University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press), c1997
Barre Toelken, Morning Dew and Roses: nuance, metaphor and meaning in folksongs
(Urbana : University of Illinois Press), c1995
COLLECTIONS (consult these for parallel examples of our broadsides)
Anon, John Cheap, The chapman’s library: the Scottish chapbook literature of the last
century classified: with life of Dougal
Graham: comic and humorous, (Glasgow: R. Lindsay, 1877-8)
Robert Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (London: Cadell and Davies, 1810).
Allan Cunningham, The Songs of Scotland, 4 vols (London: J. Taylor, 1825).
Peter Freshwater, Sons of Scotia, raise your voice : early 19th-century Scottish
broadsides from a collection
in Edinburgh University Library (Edinburgh : Friends of Edinburgh University Library,
1991).
Malcolm McLachlan Harper, The Bards of Galloway: a collection of poems, songs, ballads,
etc. : by natives of Galloway,
(Dalbeattie: 1889)
Edmund Goldsmid, ed, A ballad book: or, popular and romantic ballads current in Annandale
and other parts of
Scotland; collected by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe; reprinted from the rare original
edition of 1824,
(Edinburgh: private print, 1891).
Mrs. Robert Jardine, ed, The Chapbook of the Rottenrow, (Glasgow: William Hodge, 1913).
James Johnson, The Scots musical museum, (Hatboro, Penn: Folklore Associates, 1962).
James Maidment, Scottish Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh: T.G. Stevenson, 1859)
William Motherwell, Minstrelsy ancient and modern (Glasgow, 1827); new ed 1873.
Patrick Shuldham Shaw and Emily Lyle, The Greig-Duncan folk song collection, vol 1-
(Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1981- ).
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
Thomas Crawford, ‘Lowland song and popular tradition in the eighteenth century’,
The History of Scottish
Literature volume 2: 1660-1800, ed Andrew Hook (Aberdeen: AUP, 1987), pp.123-41.
Leith Davis, 'Citing the nation : Thomas Percy's and Walter Scott's minstrel ballads',
Acts of union. Stanford,
CA, 1998. pp.144-167
Alexander Fenton, "The People Below: Dougal Graham's Chapbooks as a Mirror of the
Lower Classes in
Eighteenth-Century Scotland." In Alisoun Gardner-Medwin and Janet Hadley Williams,
eds. A Day Estival.
Aberdeen:Aberdeen University Press, 1990. pp.69-80.
R. S. Ferguson, "Chapbooks in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries."
Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries. 2.15 (1894).
Alisoun Gardner-Medwin, 'Views of king and people in sixteenth and seventeenth century
ballads', in Bryght
lanternis, edited by J. Derrick McClure and Michael R. G. Spiller. Aberdeen, 1989,
p.24-32.
Roger Leitch, ‘ “Here chapman billies tak their stand”: a pilot study of
Scottish chapmen, packmen and
peddlars’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 120 (1990), pp.
173-88.
William B. McCarthy, 'The polarization of Scots society and ballad collecting in the early
nineteenth
century', Lore & Language, v.12, 1994, p.129-46.
_____, 'William Motherwell as field collector', Folk Music Journal., v.5, no.3, 1987,
p.295-31
Adam McNaughtan,. "A Century of Saltmarket Literature, 1790-1890." In Peter
Isaac, ed. Six Centuries of the
Provincial Booktrade in Britain. Winchester: St. Paul's, 1990, 165-180.
John Morris, 'A bothy ballad and its chapbook source', The reach of print : making,
selling and using books, edited
by Peter Isaac and Barry McKay. (Winchester : Oak Knoll, 1998), p.85-102.
_____, "Scottish Ballads and Chapbooks." In Peter Isaac and Barry McKay, eds.
Images and Texts: Their
Production and Distribution in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Winchester: St. Paul's
Bibliobgraphies; New Castle,
DE: Oak Knoll, 1997. 89-111.
_____, The Scottish Fair as seen in eighteenth and nineteenth century sources’,
Scottish Studies, 33 (1999),
pp.89-109.
Peter Morris, ‘A bothy ballad and its chapbook source’, in Peter Isaac and Barry
McKay (eds), The Reach of
print: making, selling and using books, (Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1998)
Breandan, Omadagain, 'Functions of Irish song in....', Bealoideas, 1985, vol 53, PP130-216
Thomas Pettitt, "Worn by the friction of time" : oral tradition and the
generation of the balladic narrative
mode, in Contexts of pre-novel narrative, edited by Roy Eriksen. Berlin ; New York, 1994.
p.341-372
James Porter. (Ballad-)singing and transformativity, Arv, v.48, 1992, p.165-180.
Sigrid Rieuwerts, 'Allan Ramsay and the Scottish ballads',: Aberdeen University Review,
vol.LVIII, 1, no.201,
Spring 1999, p.29-41
James Ross, ‘Folk song and social environment’, in Scottish Studies, n. 5
(1961), pp. 18-39
G. Ross Roy, "The Brash and Reid Editions of 'Tam o' Shanter.'" Burns Chronicle
98 (1989): 38-44.
_____, "Robert Burns and the Brash and Reid Chapbooks of Glasgow." In Joachim
Schwend, Suzanne
Hagemann, and Hermann Valkel, eds. Literatur im Kontext [Literature in Context]. Frankfurt
am Main: Peter
Lang, 1992. 53-67.
_____, "Some Notes on Scottish Chapbooks." Scottish Literary Journal 1 (1974):
50-60.
Robert Smith, "Poets and Peddlars." The Leopard 150 July 1990): 18-19.
Barre Toelken, ' Metaphorical ambiguity and narrative meaning in the English-Scottish
popular ballad', in
Arv, v.45, 1989, p.125-137)
Eric Bogle, The emigrant & the exile, (Edinburgh,
Scotland : Greentrax), 1996
Aileen Carr. Green Yarrow. Cockenzie, East Lothian: Greentrax. 2000. CD TRAX 173.
Heather Heywood, By yon castle wa', (Scotland : Greentrax Recordings, [199-?])
Adam McNaughtan, The Glasgow that I used to know, (Edinburgh : Greentrax), c1988
_____, Last stand at Mount Florida, (Cockenzie, East Lothian : Greentrax), c1996
Gordon Mooney, O'er the Border:: music of the Scottish Borders played on the cauld wind
pipes
(Shillinghill, Temple, Midlothian : Temple Records), 1989
Jock Tamson's Bairns. May You Never Lack a Scone. Cockenzie, East Lothian: Greentrax.
2001. CD TRAX
206.
McCalmans, The Ettrick shepherd, (Edinburgh : Greentrax), c1991
Iain MacKintosh, Gentle persuasion (Scotland : Greentrax Recordings, [199-?])
Sangsters. Sharp and Sweet. (Cockenzie, East Lothian: Greentrax), 2000. CD TRAX 207.
Isla St Clair, Tatties & herrin' : the sea, (Cockenzie, East Lothian : Greentrax),
c1997
Willie Scott, The shepherd's song : Border ballads, (Cockenzie, East Lothian : Greentrax,
c1998.
Wolfstone Wolfstone II (Ardross : Recorded by David Foster at Rowan Recording Studio,
[199-?)
Students should consult in particular:
Northern Folk
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/northernfolk.htm
GUL Special Collections Chapbooks
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/chapbook.html
University of South Carolina Scottish Chapbooks Project
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/cbooks/cbook.html
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
Exhibit of Broadsides from Swem Library
http://www.swem.wm.edu/SpColl/RBMss/Broadsides/broadsid.html
Ballads and Broadsides
http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/index.html
Bruce Olson's Website
http://users.erols.com/olsonw/
Sixteenth Century Ballads
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/
Digital Tradition Website (Research Aid, includes facility for searching for songs)
http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm
In
addition, please look at:
International Ballad Commission
http://www.KfVweb.org
The Traditional Ballad Index
http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladSearch.html
Scottish Music Information Centre
http://www.smic.org.uk
The Statistical Account of Scotland
http://edina.ac.uk/cgi/StatAcc/StatAcc.cgi
English Folk and Traditional Music on the Internet
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm
Archive of material relating to Gavin Greig and Bothy songs:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/FacSoc/Folklore
Archon (information gateway to UK manuscript archives):
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm
North East Folklore Archive:
http://www.nefa.net/
Pearl (School of Scottish Studies):
http://www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk/
Sabhal Mór Ostaig:
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/
SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network):
http://www.scran.ac.uk/
Dr Valentina Bold
University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL, Scotland.
Tel: +44 (0)1387 702021 Fax: + 44 (0)1387 253257
e-mail: v.bold@crichton.gla.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.cc.gla.ac.uk/staff/bold.htm
James Hogg website: http://www.cc.gla.ac.uk/hogg.htm