Index
agricultural depression
1, 22, 128, 132–7, 150, 159, 166
agricultural or rural background
19, 118–9, 123, 143, 149, 152, 156
Agricultural Revolution
113, 120–2
Alexander, Robert
46, 136–7
antiquarianism
140–1, 158
assembly line production
18, 143
Atkinson, David
4, 11, 23, 54
audiences
3–4, 10, 53, 78, 92, 115–6, 122
audio see broadcast music; gramophones
bawdy songs
23, 50
Bearman, C. J.
19, 117
‘The Birks of Aberfeldy’
48, 51
birth cohorts
1840s
37, 101, 120–2, 149, 152, 165
1860s
123–4
1880s–1890s
70, 133–5, 150, 159, 166
1920s
19, 33, 59, 138–44, 147, 149, 150, 155, 156, 158, 159
1940s
61, 138, 158
birth rates see demographic transition; Travellers
Bishop, Julia
105–6
Blythman, Morris
138, 158
‘The Bonnie Banks o’ Airdrie’
44, 51
Borders
40, 97, 115, 121–2
bothy ballads
123
bothy singing see contexts of singing
Bourne, George
120, 122–3
broadcast music
57–8, 143–4, 149, 156
broadsides
49, 56, 62, 106
Bruford, Alan
48, 54, 56, 58, 140, 142
Buchan, David
105–6, 113, 121–2, 142
Buchan, Norman
158
burker stories
16
buskers see street singers
Byrne, Steve
11, 15, 22n, 23, 56–7
Campbell, Katherine
43, 47, 56, 66, 195
Porter, James
cant see Travellers
carding see contexts of singing
Carpenter, James Madison
77, 105–6, 133n, 166
Carter, Ian
7, 62, 91, 107, 117, 118, 121, 123, 124, 128
Child, Francis James
48n17, 77, 95, et passim
childhood
demographic transition; education
definition
24–5
song transmission
92, 135–7, 143, 156
Children Act 1908 see education
children’s songs
23, 196
Clement, David
146
Collinson, Francis see Henderson, Hamish
contexts of singing
domestic work
77–8, 115, 142
farm work
63, 67, 93–4, 115, 142
fireside/farm kitchens/bothies/smithies
58, 61, 91, 116, 122, 142, 146
platform concerts
9, 115–6, 122–3
work-associated social gatherings
8, 63, 93, 121
workplaces (other than farms)
63, 93, 115, 142–3
Cooke, Peter
3, 41n5, 47, 49, 52
crofting see North-East
Crofton, Henry Thomas
40–1
demographic transition
126–30, 152
Departmental Committee on Tinkers (Scotland)
45, 66, 114–5, 129
Departmental Committee on Vagrancy in Scotland
45–6, 114–5
dependence on literacy see literacy
Devine, T. M.
120, 128
dialect see Scots language
domestic servants
66, 91, 92, 143, 152
Doric see Scots language
Douglas, Sheila
11, 53, 68, 71–2, 143
Duncan, Bell
77–8, 105–6
Duncan, George
49, 56, 106, 124
Duncan, Rev. James
43, 49, 98, 106, 118, et passim
education
and Travellers
24n5, 42, 73, 115, 129–30
Children Act 1908
42, 73
Education Act 1872
4, 123–4, 127, 137
in the North-East
107, 117, 123–6, 128
Reformatory Schools (Scotland) Act 1854
42
school leaving age
4, 24, 107, 123
versus tradition
19, 126–30
Enclosure Movement see Agricultural Revolution
Evans, George Ewart
127, 132
‘The Ewie wi’ the Crookit Horn’
48–9, 73n63
extended family structure
126–30
family size see demographic transition; Travellers
farming see agricultural or rural background; North-East
farmservants
61, 62, 91, 92–4, 121, 137
fertility see demographic transition
fieldwork see The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection; School of Scottish Studies
Findlater, Ethel
56, 57
First World War
124, 139–40
Folk Revival
passim
source singers; Henderson, Hamish
and Travellers
9, 11, 92, 104
and young female singers
75, 76, 158
definition
2, 9
‘The formation of the collection’ (FoC)
5–6, 22, 58, 194–6
Gaelic
23, 146
Gammon, Vic see Knevett, Arthur and Vic Gammon
generations, average length of
7
Gentleman, Hugh and Susan Swift
39, 41, 46, 72–3, 114, 129, 145
geographical background see regional background
Gillespie, Mrs Margaret
5, 55, 66, 92, 105, 106, 194, 195
girlhood see childhood
Gower, Herschel see Porter, James
gramophones
57–8, 62
Greig, Gavin
43, 48n18, 57, 115–6, 117, 122–3, 140, et passim
The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection (G-D) passim
biases
6, 43, 51, 77
fieldwork
4, 25, 163
intermediaries
4, 5, 22, 52–3
Gypsies see Travellers
Hall, Peter
47–8, 112–3
handwritten lyrics
56–7, 62
song manuscripts
harvest home see contexts of singing
hawkers
41–2, 44, 46–7, 65, 92
itinerants
Henderson, Hamish
and the Folk Revival
2, 11, 15–6, 24, 72, 104, 158, 159
and Francis Collinson
43, 98
as author
20, 39, 41, 42–3, 48n16, 55, 73n63, 98n, 104, 112, 113–4
as collector
3, 8, 42, 77, 95, 145
Higgins, Lizzie
11, 72, 87, 92, 104, 106, 144, 159
Hogg, James
121
Holmquist, Jonathan Carl
124–5
Hunter, Andrew (Andy)
87, 96, 136–7, 158
illiteracy see literacy
Irish itinerants
41–2, 47, 137
Irish migrant labour
23
itinerants
122
Irish itinerants; hawkers; tramps; Travellers; vagrants
‘Jock o’ Hazeldean’ (Child 293)
48, 55
Johnstone, Martha (Martha Reid)
45, 104–6, 115, 144, 145
Jones, E. L.
120, 132
Keith, Alexander
98, 194, 195
Kennedy, Mary
45, 49, 65
kindly relations see social relations
kirn see contexts of singing
Knevett, Arthur and Vic Gammon
117, 120
Korczynski, Marek
143
Laslett, Peter
66, 113, 126
Leitch, Roger
15, 41
literacy
54
handwritten lyrics; print; song manuscripts
dependence on literacy
56–7, 74
non-literacy
72–4, 129
Lyall, Mrs
7, 66n45, 107, 153, 194
Lyle, Emily
4, 22, 25, 43, 52, 113, 140n4
‘The formation of the collection’ (FoC)
MacColl, Ewan
11, 53, 159
and Peggy Seeger
4, 9, 43, 53, 72n55, 112, 145
McCormick, Andrew
42, 45, 49, 65, 116
McKean, Thomas
25, 92n43, 104, 107
MacKinnon, Niall
147
MacRitchie, David
40–1, 42, 114
manuscripts see song manuscripts
Mathieson, Willie
5, 17, 56, 63, 87, 93, 104, 107
meal-and-ale see contexts of singing
memory
literacy
memorisation
54–5
failure of memory
3, 10, 17, 85
Milton, Colin
124
Mitchell, Willie
56, 87
modernity versus tradition see tradition versus modernity
Munro, Ailie
3, 9, 43, 119, 146
Napoleonic Wars
40, 121
network theory see social network theory
Niles, J. D.
104
non-literacy see literacy
Nord, Deborah
114
North-East
education
crofting and farming
7, 62, 107, 113, 120–1, 124, 128, 132, 165
in School of Scottish Studies data
96, 119, 122, 136, 156
poets
124
regional culture
23, 51–2, 83, 88, 96, 101, 1o5, 117, 123–6, 148–9
Olson, Ian
on Greig-Duncan
43, 118
on the North-East
23, 96
on songs
48–9, 123, 146
on terminology and methodology
2, 9, 95, 98n
on Traveller singers
3, 11, 15, 47, 51–2, 55–6, 62, 65, 73
oral tradition
9, 11, 49, 54, 71–4, 95, 153–4
Ord, John
22
Orkney
58, 97, 140
pedlars see hawkers
Percy, Bishop Thomas
55, 56, 98
performance
10–12, 53, 75, 91, 115–6
audiences; contexts of singing
Petrie, Elaine
78, 93, 107, 116, 194
platform concerts see contexts of singing
Porter, James
43
and Herschel Gower
11, 75, 91
and Katherine Campbell
195
print
55–6, 61, 72, 73–4, 106, 150
broadsides
‘The Queen amang the Heather’
72n55, 93
recorded music see broadcast music; gramophones
Reformatory Schools (Scotland) Act 1854 see education
regional background
118, 136
North-East
Rehfisch, Farnham
43, 114, 128, 129
Reid, Martha see Johnstone, Martha
Revival see Folk Revival
Rieuwerts, Sigrid
10
Robertson, Bell
17, 24, 44–5, 55, 66, 103, 105, 107, 142–3
Robertson, Jeannie
and Child ballads
48, 72, 95, 104, 106
as source singer
2, 26, 87, 92, 106, 113, 159
sources of repertoire
11, 54–5, 72, 73, 96, 106
Robertson, Stanley
16, 55, 72, 104, 106, 111, 145
Romany see Travellers
rural background see agricultural or rural background
school see education
school leaving age see education
School of Scottish Studies (SSSA) passim
Bruford, Alan; Cooke, Peter; Henderson, Hamish; Munro, Ailie; North-East
biases
3, 11–16, 43, 52, 77–85, 91, 119, 141, 146
fieldwork
1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 30, 61, 95, 103, 135, 163
Scots language
124–5
The Scots Musical Museum
48–9, 73, 146
Scott, Sir Walter
10, 55
Scott, Willie
93, 122
second-hand recipients
2, 22, 26, 59, 165–6
Seeger, Peggy see MacColl, Ewan
self collection see song manuscripts
servants see domestic servants; farmservants
Sharp, Cecil
19, 117–8, 120, 122, 128n16
Shelta see Travellers
Shepheard, Pete
47
Shetland
7, 40, 63, 97
Shirer, Annie
66, 105, 106, 153, 195
Shuldham-Shaw, Patrick
4
Simson, James
40, 129
Simson, Walter
40, 42, 45, 114
‘Singers’ with a capital S
9, 17, 104, 145, 163, 164
source singers
singing styles see Travellers
Skinner, Rev. John
48–9
smithies see contexts of singing
social class
19, 118, 120–3, 152
social network theory
72
social relations
92, 121–2
Travellers
song manuscripts
56–7, 196
handwritten lyrics
source singers
2, 9, 15, 53, 87
Higgins, Lizzie; Robertson, Jeannie; Stewart, Belle; Stewart, Sheila; Whyte, Betsy
Spence, Lewis
41
Stewart, Belle
2, 11, 50, 55, 72, 73, 92, 145
Stewart, Sheila
43n, 55, 72, 92, 145
street singers
42, 44, 46–7, 50, 62n35, 65, 92
Teitelbaum, Michael
126–7, 129n18
‘Thomas the Rhymer’
10, 55
threshing see contexts of singing
‘The Tinker’s Wedding’
49, 51n31
Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches (TaD)
1, 6, 9, 20, 21, 50, 58, 63, 135, 144
tradition versus modernity
18, 112–5, 117, 120–3, 126–30, 132, 143–6, 148–9, 165
tramps
42, 44, 46, 92n41, 137
itinerants
Travellers passim
education; demographic transition; itinerants; tradition versus modernity
age of marriage
129
family size
7n17, 129–30, 131
family structure
24n5, 128, 129–30, 155–6
history
40–2
language
41, 45, 49, 129n17
occupations
8, 41–2, 44, 67, 91, 114–5, 128
population numbers
45–6, 129n17
repertoire
47–52, 62, 80
singing styles
44–5, 47
social relations
65–6, 91, 92, 114–5, 155
terminology
39–42
vagrants
42, 45–6
Departmental Committee on Vagrancy in Scotland; itinerants
Walker, William
22, 48n20
Whyte, Betsy
23n3, 50, 52, 55, 105n10, 115n, 142, 144
Whyte, Bryce
3, 145
Williamson, Duncan
10, 45, 55, 104, 105n10, 111, 116
Williamson, Linda
10, 41n5, 45, 50, 75, 104–5, 109, 116, 144
‘Willie’s Fatal Visit’ (Child 255)
50, 72
Wood, Sydney
128
World War I see First World War
writing see handwritten lyrics; print; song manuscripts
‘Yowie wi the Crooked Horn’ see ‘The Ewie wi’ the Crookit Horn’