Hogg, Traditional Culture, and The Mountain Bard

Citation

Gilbert S (2007) Hogg, Traditional Culture, and The Mountain Bard. In: Mack D, Duncan I I & Gilbert S (eds.) James Hogg: Research website. James Hogg and the Scottish Song Tradition, Stirling, UK, 19.05.2006-19.05.2006. Stirling: University of Stirling. http://www.jameshogg.stir.ac.uk/HoggTraditionalCulture%20SG.pdf

Abstract
On 19 May 2006 a one-day symposium, on ‘James Hogg and the Scottish Song Tradition', was held at the University of Stirling in connection with an AHRC research grant awarded to Professor Emeritus Douglas Mack (University of Stirling, Principal Investigator) and Dr Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow, Co-Investigator). The symposium was organised by Dr Janette Currie (University of Stirling) and Dr McCue, and it focused on various aspects of the work on Hogg's songs that has been undertaken by the Stirling / South Carolina (S/SC) Research Edition of James Hogg. The following article is a revised and expanded version of the presentation given at the symposium by Dr Suzanne Gilbert (University of Stirling). It is designed to complement Dr Gilbert's S/SC edition of Hogg's ballad and song collection, The Mountain Bard (December 2007), by pointing to some of the possible lines of future research on Hogg opened up by that edition.