Abstract
This paper looks at the relationship between sung and spoken narrative in a present-day Scottish Traveller family, focusing on a series of family stories about King James V (1512–42). The stories are told in relation to a pair of ballads, “The Jolly Beggar” and “The Gaberlunyie Man” (Child 279 and 279 Appendix) and through them I explore the function, meaning, and continued relevance of contextualizing narratives, which fill in gaps in plot, anchor a song in time, or develop a didactic message.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 208-226) |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Narrative Cultures |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Extracts from Tobar an Dualchals used by permission of the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh.Keywords
- disguise
- storytelling
- ballad
- narrative
- musical performance
- scotland
- Travellers
