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Collections & Taxonomies (collecting in the past (collecting oral…

- - - - poetry to be sung, oral literature poetry
      - earliest collections don't recognize this
        
        Patrick MacDonald [no words]
        
        Albyn's Anthology - prioritised english
        
        more about audience?
    - - can be reconstructed
      - must consider under predilections
      - upper stratum of society [MacInnes]
  - - - Marjorie Kennedy Fraser
        
        wax cylinders with Lucy Broadwood [1908]
        
        Gaelic songs to art music
        
        popularise/reputation of gaelic song
        
        influence on mod & culture [ethnographic value
    - - bawdy
        
        emic editing process
- - - - Margaret Fay Shaw
        
        gathering of friends/family to talk and sing
      - romanticise traditional contexts
        
        ceilidh
        
        define & describe over 200 years
        
        ignore other situations
    - - categorised by genre/function
      - puirt-a-beul
        
        untouched though widespread
        
        neglected until recently
        
        Lamb - absence of collections pre-1700
      - selectivity of collections
        
        milling/commercial mills
  - - - 1977 gaelic folklore archive
        
        Lauchie MacLellan & Joe MacNeil
        
        2000 songs
        
        private collections & fieldwork
      - essential part of mutually reinforcing genres
- - - - literary themes cross barriers
      - personal & universally appealing
    - - unlikely to be all-encompassing
    - - clinical & taxonomical approach
        
        before scientific application to culture
      - express utility vs meaning in culture
      - Blankenhorn's criticism
        
        dissimilar criteria
        
        each useful in own right
  - - - benefits of etic perspective
      - aided by insights of Gaels themselves