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Performing Robert Burns : Enactments and Representations of the ‘National Bard’ / Ian Brown, Gerard Carruthers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474457149
  • 9781474457163
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.6 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The Performance of Burns -- 2 Performance and Print in Editions of Robert Burns in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1 -- 3 Robert Burns and Theatre -- 4 Burns and Music Hall -- 5 ‘But to our tale’: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ on Stage -- 6 ‘O what a glorious sight’: Performing Identity and the Burns Supper -- 7 Burns, Public Ceremonial and Civic Scotland, c.1796-c.1914 -- 8 Robert Burns on the Twentieth-Century Stage -- 9 Burns and Film -- 10 Orchestral Manoeuvres: Burns on the Concert Platform, 1879–1959 -- 11 Enactments and Representations of the National Bard: Burns and the Folk Context -- 12 ‘Frae my ain countrie’: Robert Burns in the Archive of Jean Redpath -- 13 Performing the Work of Robert Burns -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Examines representations of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modesExamination of representation of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modesAnalysis of ‘Robert Burns’ as a cultural performance rising from different representations of his work by different editors, composers, writers, performers and film-makersFresh detailed studies of Burns as a performed and performative construct, exploring ways in which he is encountered as a living authorContributions by leading experts in music, drama, film and history as well as literaturePerspectives on Burns songs offered by musical experts and leading performersThis book opens up fresh aspects of performance and performativity and their impact on our perception of Robert Burns and his work. Bringing together leading experts on music, song, drama, public ceremonial and literature, it studies Burns as a performed and performative construct. It explores ways in which he is encountered as a living author, setting the popularity of his poetry and songs in the context of his representation in popular culture. A key part of this volume’s attraction lies in the way it opens up fresh issues and aspects of performance and performativity and their impact on our perception of Robert Burns and his work.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The Performance of Burns -- 2 Performance and Print in Editions of Robert Burns in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1 -- 3 Robert Burns and Theatre -- 4 Burns and Music Hall -- 5 ‘But to our tale’: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ on Stage -- 6 ‘O what a glorious sight’: Performing Identity and the Burns Supper -- 7 Burns, Public Ceremonial and Civic Scotland, c.1796-c.1914 -- 8 Robert Burns on the Twentieth-Century Stage -- 9 Burns and Film -- 10 Orchestral Manoeuvres: Burns on the Concert Platform, 1879–1959 -- 11 Enactments and Representations of the National Bard: Burns and the Folk Context -- 12 ‘Frae my ain countrie’: Robert Burns in the Archive of Jean Redpath -- 13 Performing the Work of Robert Burns -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Examines representations of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modesExamination of representation of Robert Burns and his work in a wide range of performance modesAnalysis of ‘Robert Burns’ as a cultural performance rising from different representations of his work by different editors, composers, writers, performers and film-makersFresh detailed studies of Burns as a performed and performative construct, exploring ways in which he is encountered as a living authorContributions by leading experts in music, drama, film and history as well as literaturePerspectives on Burns songs offered by musical experts and leading performersThis book opens up fresh aspects of performance and performativity and their impact on our perception of Robert Burns and his work. Bringing together leading experts on music, song, drama, public ceremonial and literature, it studies Burns as a performed and performative construct. It explores ways in which he is encountered as a living author, setting the popularity of his poetry and songs in the context of his representation in popular culture. A key part of this volume’s attraction lies in the way it opens up fresh issues and aspects of performance and performativity and their impact on our perception of Robert Burns and his work.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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