Jigs, Quicksteps, Reels and … Hang on a Minute! (Kerr’s Merry Melodies)

Posted on by Dr Karen E McAulay
A textile interpretation of the Merry Melodies logo

In June 2020 I had just posted a new article on my Glaswegian Music Publishers Facebook page.

Jigs, Quicksteps, Reels and … Hang on a Minute!

I had promised to write about some of the Victorian Glaswegian James Kerr’s music publications. The entire posting is going to turn into a chapter in the monograph I’m working on, so I’m taking it down from the blog – I’ve continued working on dates and the intricacies of Kerr’s trading career, and there’s every chance that slight details may now be different from what I wrote last year. I wouldn’t want inaccurate information or ideas that I have since developed, to survive publicly online.

Call it an Encore: The Green Room

Posted on by Dr Karen E McAulay

The blogpost that I originally wrote for the Cultural Capital Exchange, has also now been posted in a series of postings by the Research Exchange at my own institution, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Here it is again, then:-

THE GREEN ROOM: DR KAREN MCAULAY (10th June) – Stepping out of the Georgian Era into a Pandemic

Glasgow Music Publishers Facebook Page

Posted on by Dr Karen E McAulay

This afternoon, I joined the Victorian Glasgow Group on Facebook. What a great group! But I hastily made a new Facebook page for my researches into Glasgow music publishers – after all, the group was set up to discuss Victorian Glasgow, whilst my current researches range roughly between 1880 and 1950. Since I don’t want to drag my new Victorian friends into modernity which is beyond the scope of that group, I’ve made this new page for discussions that aren’t quite Victorian. (I deliberately opted for a page rather than a group, as I like being part of a more interdisciplinary group – I don’t want to start another separate “silo”, aloof from all the other interesting stuff.)

Glasgow Music Publishers