Oskar Cox Jensen is Senior Research Associate in Politics at the University of East Anglia, on the project oursubversivevoice.com. His biography can be found under Network Members. ______________________________________________________________ ‘Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of the English Protest Song’ Read More …
An exhibition at Edinburgh’s Georgian House opening in June will tell the remarkable story of a forgotten figure on the city’s musical scene, who left an enduring legacy for Scottish cultural heritage. Felix Yaniewicz (1762-1848) was a Polish-Lithuanian violinist and Read More …
Ellen Beard is a former American lawyer who earned a PhD in Celtic from the University of Edinburgh in 2016, focusing on 18th-century Scottish Gaelic poetry and song. Her publications include 100 Songs of Rob Donn Mackay (Upper Breakish: Taigh Read More …
Our Project PI has just completed and published the first ever standalone edition of Robert Burns’s songs for his second song editor, George Thomson (1757-1851), which is volume 4 of the new multi-volume Oxford Works of Robert Burns now underway Read More …
January 2019, Rory Cellan-Jones from the BBC posed the question ‘is this the end of owning music?’. In his article, he reported CD sales had ‘plummeted by 23%’, largely caused by the rise of streaming services. Even as early as Read More …
Karen McAulay’s career has combined librarianship with research. A librarian at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she has been seconded to several postdoctoral research projects since attaining a PhD in music from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She has published Read More …
Derek B. Scott is is Professor of Critical Musicology and former Head of the School of Music at the University of Leeds. His biography can be found under Network Members. ___________________________________________________ For some time, I have wanted to contribute a Read More …
Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland is the Research Assistant for the Romantic National Song Network and is also a Research Associate for The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay project. Her biography can be found on the Network Members page. _______________________________________________________________ POPULAR MELODIES, English, Scotch, Read More …
Dr Elizabeth Edwards is a Research Fellow at the University of Wales (CAWCS). She is a core network member for the Romantic National Song Network. ______________________________________________ In August 1804, George Thomson invited the Welsh poet Richard Llwyd to contribute his Read More …
Sarah Clemmens Waltz is currently Associate Professor of Music History and director of the music history program at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, California. Her dissertation, The Highland Muse in Romantic German Music (Yale University, Read More …