The voice of the people : Hamish Henderson and Scottish cultural politics / Corey Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Corey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Scottish--20th century--Biography.

Poets, Scottish.

Arts and society--Scotland--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

Henderson, Hamish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Summary:

How might the alienation of the artist in modern Scotland be overcome? How do you incite a popular folk revival? Can a poet truly speak with the 'voice of the people'? And what happens to the writer who rejects print culture in favour of becoming Anon. The life and times of polymath, scholar, author and folk-hero, Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poses, and helps us to answer, these questions. This book examines his life-long commitment to finding a form of artistic expression suitable for post-war Europe. Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained through anecdotes and radical folk songs. This study explores his ideas in their intellectual, cultural and political contexts. It describes how all of his works - in war poetry, song collection, folklore scholarship, folksong revivalism, literary translation, and vicious public debates - reflect this desire to see the artist fully reintegrated in society.

Contents:

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction ; 1 The Flytings; 2 War Poetry and Soldiers' Songs; 3 Gramsci's Folklore; 4 Poetry and the People; 5 The Revivalist and the Folklorist; Epilogue ; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1252-1

0-7486-9996-1

OCLC:

1301547353