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is a performing arts librarian and postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Qualified as a librarian, musicologist and pedagogue, she studied for her PhD in music at the University of Glasgow. She is(2013); and her second book on amateur music-making in late 19th-century and early 20th-century Scotland is currently with the publishers.

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