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Thread #167340 Message #4036304
Posted By: Steve Gardham
26-Feb-20 - 02:47 PM
Thread Name: Mediation and its definition in folk music
Subject: RE: Mediation and its definition in folk music
A repeat request please which no one answered last time. Motherwell's famous influential essay on how collecting and publishing should be carried on. Was that in his original Minstrelsy as well as later editions, or did it just appear in later editions, and if so at what point did it appear?
Sharpe was behind a lot of the early publications and some of the manuscripts were in his possession but I'm not aware he published anything substantial on the ballads. Macmath appears to have finished up with a lot of this and then passed it on to Child.
What publications of Burns actually give his sources? Very little identified in Johnson. My little paperback of Merry Muses doesn't have sources but the original may have.