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Beautiful Wasteland

1997 album by Capercaillie

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2022
Entity authorityQ4877835 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beautiful Wasteland is the seventh studio album by folk rock band Capercaillie. It was reissued in North America by Valley Entertainment in 2002.

Editorial summary

“Beautiful Wasteland” enters the record as 1997 album by Capercaillie. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beautiful, Wasteland and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beautiful, Wasteland and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Beautiful Wasteland” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beautiful, Wasteland and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q4877835. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Beautiful Wasteland”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Beautiful Wasteland primary sources, Beautiful Wasteland archive and Beautiful research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Beautiful Wasteland”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Beautiful Wasteland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.