Dear All,
The major AHRC-funded project - Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century - based at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies has launched the first phase of its new website.
The website will host information about the project and regular blog posts which will both provide information and seek to draw upon the global community's knowledge of the Scottish national bard. The editors of the new edition have already encountered a number of fascinating anomalies in biographical and archival records of Burns's life and works, and hope that sharing information such as this with Burnsians worldwide via social media will bring fresh perspectives and new leads, as well as encourage serious discussion about the scholarly and popular treatment of Robert Burns.
However, much more than this, the website will host a multitude of new and freely-available recordings of Burns's songs by popular folk artists. Recordings are being commissioned to coincide with each of the first three volumes of the edition, and these will be directly related to the works contained therein. Recordings during 2012-13 will comprise readings from a variety of Burns's prose works and musical recordings of Burns's earliest efforts in song. A selection of songs by singer Kirsten Easdale accompanied by Gregor Lowry on the accordion are already available for visitors to download and enjoy.
The website will host regular video clips from the project's Youtube channel ranging from interviews with the project team and editors, to clips from the many project-related events that are currently being organised. The first such event will be a symposium held in October 2012 to commemorate the first publication of Burns's works - the 'Kilmarnock Edition' (1786).
The 'Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century' website will also host a number of online exhibitions and digital resources. These are currently being developed and will be launched in later phases of the project (to coincide with events such as the Kilmarnock Symposium, and with the publication of individual volumes).
Please click the following link for information about the project, to download songs/videos, and to access the blog:
http://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/burnsc21/
We look forward to interesting and exciting discussion with the wider Burns community in the weeks, months and years to come.
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Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, School of Critical Studies, College of Arts, University of Glasgow,
7 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH
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