Sometimes there are times when you know you should read something, but you worry it might not be directly relevant to your work – or you suspect you’ll spend too much time on something that may only be of tangential interest.
Today was not one of those times, though. After a couple of days off for home improvements, I decided that what I really needed this morning, to ease myself back into a research frame of mind, was to sit and focus on something which might not mean much note-taking, but was certainly of background interest. Indeed, it even touched my interest in copyright history, albeit not music copyright.
And that’s how I found myself reading online – for I couldn’t justify printing out 170-odd pages – this very readable article about Scottish book publishers:-
Gossman, Lionel. “Spreading the Word: Scottish Publishers and English Literature 1750-1900.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 109, no. 2, 2020, pp. iii–161. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/45381452. Accessed 16 Feb. 2023.
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 