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Author Gibson, Corey, author.

Title The voice of the people : Hamish Henderson and Scottish cultural politics / Corey Gibson
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

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Contents Intro -- 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
Summary Examining Hamish Henderson's search for the radical voice of the people in modern Scotland. 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. Key Features. Reclaims Hamish Henderson from the marginalia of Scottish literary history, from hagiography, and from a reputation built on anecdote and myth-making, resituating him as an insightful and original theorist on the politics of culture. Provides a hitherto unexplored perspective on twentieth-century Scottish cultural history, examining the modern literary Renaissance and the popular folk revival on a single trajectory. Situates Scottish literary and cultural debates in the broader context of intellectual and cultural developments in twentieth-century Europe and the US. Directly tackles the question of national identity in twentieth-century Scotland, scrutinising the efforts of various cultural figures to conflate or combine Romantic nationalism and Internationalist socialism. These debates remain highly relevant to contemporary discourses on Scotland's constitutional future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-224) and index
Subject Henderson, Hamish.
SUBJECT Henderson, Hamish fast
Subject Poets, Scottish -- 20th century -- Biography
Arts and society -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Arts and society
Poets, Scottish
Scotland
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748699964
0748699961
9781474403672
1474403670