Followers of this blog may like to sign up to news briefings from the Institute of English Studies’ School of Advanced Study at the University of London. The latest briefing includes news about fellowship opportunities, and advance information about the London Rare Books School in June, with a course run by our friend Giles Bergel (Oxford/UCL) and Elizabeth Savage (IES) – about printing of an earlier era than we normally concentrate on, but very interesting nonetheless!
Copyright Contradictions
Over the weekend, I put together a very tiny animation about a tune plagiarised from Moore’s Irish Melodies in 1815. Interesting Twitter conversation ensued with Paul Cooper (of RegencyDances.org) and folklorist Jurgen Kloss in Hennef, Germany. In brief, it does appear that folk tunes – and even country dances – were seen as fair game for repurposing and republication, although there are a number of legal disputes on record in contemporary newspapers. And I have some more great references for the bibliography, next time I’m updating it!
- Cooper, Paul, White v. Gerock, 1818 (of Country Dances & Copyright), https://www.regencydances.org/paper014.php
- Cooper, Paul, Copyright disputes between London’s Dance Publishers, 1810s, https://www.regencydances.org/paper032.php
- T.C.C., ‘Musical Proprietorship’, The Quarterly Musical Magazine & Review, vol.3, pp.151-154, via Archive.org
- Kloss, Jurgen, …Humming A Diff’rent Tune: “Melodies of Different Nations”: Anthologies of International “National Airs” in Britain 1800-1830 – Pt. 1 (2015)
- Kloss, Jurgen, …Humming A Diff’rent Tune: “Melodies of Different Nations”: Anthologies of International “National Airs” in Britain 1800-1830 – Pt. 2 (2016)
- Kloss, Jurgen, ‘…Humming A Diff’rent Tune: “This, after All, Is Music of the Heart” Thomas Moore’s “Hark! The Vesper Hymn Is Stealing” (1818) (2016)
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Here’s my original weekend posting:-
I unearthed an unexpected instance of musical plagiarism yesterday. And I wonder if Thomas Moore and James Power were even aware of it! I won’t divulge too many of the details, as I might be referring to it in a conference paper one day, but here’s the teaser, in the form of a brief Biteable animation! Please click the link below:-
Early photography: Elizabeth Johnston Hall (1822-1901)
This makes me think of the early photograph of an old lady, Mrs Bertram of Edinburgh. (As readers of Claimed From Stationers Hall blog and the EAERN project blog will realise, I think it highly likely that it’s “our” school proprietress, Jane Bertram.) I’m intrigued that so much can be found out about the subjects of early photographs. Hopefully I’ll be able to reach out to the authors of Glasgow University Library’s blogpost to see if they’ve ever encountered her!
Guest blog post by Roddy Simpson, photographer and writer on the history of photography, author of ‘The Photography of Victorian Scotland’ (2012).
Elizabeth Johnston Hall by Hill and Adamson. Carbon print by Jessie Bertram 1916. University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections Dougan Add. 40
Elizabeth Johnston Hall (1822-1901) is one of the most famous photographed Scottish women because of the superb image of her produced in the mid-1840s, at the very beginnings of photography, by the pioneering Scottish partnership of David Octavius Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48). She is clearly identified because ‘her name had been written by D O Hill under the photograph’ (see footnote 1).
The beautifully composed and lit image of this Newhaven fishwife has appeared in countless exhibitions around the world, been enlarged to poster size and also appeared on the sides of buses and trams. She has been written about by academics and art…
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Can You Copyright a Quilt?, asked Alexandra Marvar in The Nation
Forgive me – combining two of my passions, I have to share this article!
Long after their iconic American quilts caught the art world’s attention, the Gee’s Bend artisans are taking control of their legacy.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review – CFP
Spotted on Twitter, shared in haste – this might be of interest to network readers:-
Call for papers for a themed edition of Nineteenth-Century Music Review: ‘Rediscovering and Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century’
The full CFP can be read in Marten Noorduin’s recent tweet
And here’s the journal itself:-
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review
If you’re rushing to submit a proposal, then the following whispered (well, tweeted) insider comment might make you feel a bit less stressed:- “Officially the deadline is today, but I won’t actually be looking at them until Monday morning. Anyone who sends me an abstract before 9 am on 6 February will still be considered!”
The Wild Goose Chase
Weekend frivolity on Facebook!
Call for Essays on 18th Century Collecting
This is turning into a busy week! Here’s another interesting call for essays, this time from the Women’s Study Group. Picture me, if you will, twirling like a top as I decide which of all these opportunities to turn my attention to first!
Quoting, with permission, from the email that was kindly forwarded to me:-
“The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills
“We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art, science and collecting in Europe during the long 18th century. Our volume will discuss the topic of art, science and collecting in its broadest sense and in diverse theoretical contexts, such as art historical, feminist, social, gendered, colonial, archival, literary and cultural ones. To accompany our existing contributions, we welcome essays that take a global and material approach, and are particularly keen on research that makes use of new archival resources. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and are especially interested in essays that reveal the way in which women participated in art, science, and collecting in some capacity.
“The compendium will consist of around 15 essays, 6000 words each (including footnotes), with up to four illustrations. In addition to these more traditional essays, we are looking for shorter (circa 1,000 words) case studies on material objects pertaining to collections/collectors from that period. The subject of art, science and collecting will also be central to these contributions. These smaller pieces will each include one illustration. The following topics/case studies are particularly desired:
- Women’s Collecting Interests
- Histories and methodologies of collecting, taxonomies, cataloging, arrangement, and modes of display
- Cabinets of curiosities
- Catalogues
- Collections housed in art and/or science institutions
- The boundaries between the natural and the artificial
- Scientific and artistic tools and instruments
- Seriality vs. Rare objects
- Transitional Objects
- Conservation
- Collecting networks
- The artist collector
- The scientist collector
- The overlapping of art, science and collecting in domestic spaces.
- Antiquarian collections
- Print culture
“All inquiries should be addressed to Arlene Leis, aleis914@gmail.comor Kacie Wills, kacie.wills@gmail.com
“Essay abstracts of 500 words and 300 word abstracts for smaller case studies are due January 30, 2019 and should be sent along with a short bio to: artsciencecollecting@gmail.com
“Finished case studies will be due July 30, 2019, and due date for long essays will be September 30, 2019.
Musica Scotica Conference Registration Opens
Must be the start of the year – there’s a sudden outpouring of calls for papers, conference registrations and other exciting challenges. Here’s one for this morning – Musica Scotica is a network I’ve long been associated with.
Musica Scotica 14th Annual Conference
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 May 2019 (Tolbooth, Stirling)
Registration for the Musica Scotica conference is now open. It is posted on Musica Scotica’s Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/events/374235653379262/
Musica Scotica homepage: http://www.musicascotica.org.uk/
Sharing a Cool Call for Papers
We are happy to share another call for papers, this time on behalf of CopyrightLiteracy.org :-
Please put 26th June 2019 in your diaries, and Edinburgh as the location! Booking is via the CILIP website – click the link below.
ICEPOPS
We are delighted to announce that the Icepops 2019 call for contributions is now open. The conference is taking place on 26th June 2019 at the University of Edinburgh and you have from now until the 4th February to come up with an idea for your presentation.
We are looking for speakers on all aspects of copyright education from a variety of different perspectives. Last year we attracted expert speakers from educational & cultural institutions, publishing houses and government departments as well as an impressive number of international delegates. Our first keynote this year is composer, publisher and scholar Simon Anderson, who will be opening the conference with a musical theme. We particularly welcome sessions that might compliment this. However, we also retain the playful learning theme from last year and our afternoon keynote, the award-winning Charlie Farley from the University of Edinburgh will be leading an interactive workshop.
We would like to encourage presenters to address one of the themes of this year’s conference:
– Universal Copyright Literacy: bridging the gaps between lawyers, IP teachers, specialists and copyright muggles
– Engaging and creative approaches to copyright education including using games, music and performance
– Copyright education as part of digital and information literacy initiatives
– Copyright education in the cultural heritage sector
– Teaching copyright as part of scholarly and open practices
However, we wouldn’t want you to feel constrained if you have a great idea relating to copyright literacy that doesn’t fit 100% into any of the above. Please just let us know and we’ll see if it fits in the programme.
Sharing The Legacy Press’s Call for Essays
I’m pleased to be sharing this call for essays, which I saw on a mailing-list to which I subscribe. I’m just quoting the entire call, by permission of the editors:-
Call for Essays
Impressions, Vol. 2: Essays on the Art of Printing, The Legacy Press
The Impressions series encompasses all the printing arts: relief, intaglio, lithographic, serigraphic, and digital, as well as related arts, such as stamping, stenciling, and pochoir.
Vol. 1 has filled, and we are taking essays for Vol. 2, which is open to any Impressions topic. Impressions welcomes published scholars, new authors, established areas of inquiry, and topics not previously addressed in other publications. Impressions is particularly interested in studies that use images both as evidence and examples for visual learning.
- printing and printmaking
- book arts
- practical printing
- bibliography
- history and criticism (book, printing, literary, art, cultural)
- interviews
- digitization and the printing arts
- conservation
- archives, collections, libraries, information
- collecting
If you have an essay in preparation or if you would like more information about Impressions, please email series editor Rebecca Chung: chung.rm@gmail.com
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 