Annual Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture
Who's Listening? by Tom McKean
(Sat 12 Nov: 12pm)
Songs are meant to be sung and heard. But many of the most revered Scottish singers of the past had a narrow, or sometimes no audience. Drawing on the song traditions of Willie Matheson, Lucy Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Lizzie Higgins - some of Hamish Henderson's key contacts in the North East of Scotland - Tom McKean's talk explores the rich dynamic relationship between the oral tradition and print, and our understanding of what is performed and communicated (and what it means) in small scale and domestic settings.
As Director of the Elphinstone Institute at Aberdeen University, Tom McKean, a former student of Hamish Henderson, is an internationally recognised folklorist, holding posts as Vice President of SIEF (The International Society of Ethnology and Folklore) and Convenor of the British Folklore Studies Section of the American Folklore Society.
This event is free, but ticketed. Lecture will begin at 12.30pm
