{"title":"Songs of the Hebrides and the Critics","authors":"V. Blankenhorn","doi":"10.2218/ss.v38.2851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/ss.v38.2851","url":null,"abstract":"Marjory Kennedy-Fraser has been a figure of controversy for a long time. Indeed, no aspect of her life and work – her expeditions to the Gàidhealtachd for the purpose of collecting Gaelic songs; her transformation of these into artsongs with English texts and piano accompaniments; her subsequent publication of Songs of the Hebrides and related works; her lecture-recitals of Gaelic and other ‘Celtic’ music in the halls and drawing-rooms of Edinburgh; her collaboration with the Rev. Kenneth MacLeod and her friendship with prominent figures in the Celtic Revival; even her physical appearance and character – has escaped the notice of her critics, including some who became heavyweight champions of the art and culture of Gaelic Scotland. For the past seventy years and more, the noise and smoke generated by these big guns has made any objective reassessment of Mrs Kennedy-Fraser difficult and unlikely. Even today one continues to hear her name disparaged by people who, however little they actually know about her, nonetheless take refuge in the common consensus that her work was of no value – indeed, that it did actual harm to the Gaelic tradition – and that she herself was little better than an air-headed, money-grubbing opportunist. In this paper, I would like to examine Mrs Kennedy-Fraser’s life and work in light of the criticisms levelled at her. Enough time has now elapsed that the battle over her reputation has a certain historical interest; and while some snipers may yet be lurking in the hedgerows, it should now be possible to determine why and how the battle was joined in the first place. The details of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s background and upbringing have been the subject of frequent summary; those of the Rev. Kenneth MacLeod are perhaps less well-known, the most illuminating picture of his life being that published by the Rev. Thomas Murchison in his introduction to MacLeod’s Gaelic prose writings, Sgriobhaidhean Choinnich MhicLeòid. While we shall have more to say regarding their collaboration in due course, a brief review of their lives may be helpful at the outset.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85776276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storytelling among Lowland Scots since 1800: An All-Female, Upper-Middle-Class Family Oral Tradition in the Context of Written Tale Collections","authors":"C. Lindahl","doi":"10.2218/ss.v38.2853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/ss.v38.2853","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>''</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74438867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British Fictions after Devolution: William Boyd’s Culinary Arts","authors":"D. Mcneill","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3622","url":null,"abstract":"Taking William Boyd's post-2000 novels as symptomatic of wider problems in British writing during the period of the break-up of Britain, this essay suggests that what looks, at first, like a simple collapse in Boyd's talent in fact has produced texts illuminating, in their limitations, the difficulties of British affiliation in the era of Britishness's ideological exhaustion. Boyd is, on this reading, an exemplary counter-example to the canon of self-consciously Scottish fiction more commonly studied in the years since 1979.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91362201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert A. Dodgshon. No Stone Unturned: a History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.","authors":"I. Ralston","doi":"10.21083/irss.v42i0.3869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/irss.v42i0.3869","url":null,"abstract":"Robert A. Dodgshon. No Stone Unturned: a History of Farming, \u0000Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. \u0000Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. Pp 299. ISBN 978 1 \u00004744 0074 9. $US 135.00.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"102-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87494028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philippe Laplace, ed., Environmental and Ecological Readings. Nature, Human and Post Human Dimensions in Scottish Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXI c.)","authors":"M. Hudec","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3792","url":null,"abstract":"Philippe Laplace, ed., Environmental and Ecological Readings. Nature, Human and Post Human Dimensions in Scottish Literature & Arts (XVIII-XXI c.). Annales Litteraires de l’Universite de Franche-Comte, n° 947 and Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles, n°89. Besancon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comte. 2015. Pp. 308. ISBN 9782848675305. €16.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88237787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebecca Lenihan. From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s Scots migrants 1840-1920","authors":"S. Brosnahan","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4057","url":null,"abstract":"Rebecca Lenihan. From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand's Scots migrants 1840-1920. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-877578-79-3. NZD$45.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73473746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jane Dawson. John Knox","authors":"D. Macleod","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.3882","url":null,"abstract":"Jane Dawson. John Knox. New Haven: Yale, 2015. Pp. 373. ISBN: \u00009780300219708. $32.50 (USD).","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73207379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iain A. MacInnes, Scotland's Second War of Independence 1332-1357","authors":"M. Brown","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4069","url":null,"abstract":"Iain A. MacInnes, Scotland's Second War of Independence 1332-1357. Warfare in History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016. \u0000Pp. xiv and 275. ISBN 978-1-78327-144-3. £60.00.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76650512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brian Bonnyman, The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: Estate Management and Improvement in Enlightenment Scotland","authors":"Craig Smith","doi":"10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21083/IRSS.V42I0.4094","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Bonnyman, The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: \u0000Estate Management and Improvement in Enlightenment Scotland. \u0000Scottish Historical Review Monograph Series, vol. 23. Edinburgh: \u0000Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. vi-x, 1-211. ISBN: \u00009780748642007. GBP £45.","PeriodicalId":40214,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Scottish Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88460331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}