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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of musical examples; General editorâ#x80;#x99;s preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Understanding Scotland musically; Part I Policy and practice; 2 Traditional music and cultural sustainability in Scotland; 3 â#x80;#x98;A sense of who we areâ#x80;#x99;: the cultural value of community-based traditional music in Scotland; 4 The emergence of the â#x80;#x98;traditional artsâ#x80;#x99; in Scottish cultural policy; 5 â#x80;#x98;Eun Bheag Chanaidhâ#x80;#x99; where the Gaelic arts and non-traditional theatre meet: a song discussion. |
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6 Referendum reflections: traditional music and the performance of politics in the campaign for Scottish independencePart II Porosity, genres, hybridity; 7 The changing nature of conceptualisation and authenticity among Scottish traditional musicians: traditional music, conservatoire education and the case for post-revivalism; 8 Slaying the Tartan Monster: hybridisation in recent Scottish music; 9 â#x80;#x98;It happens in balladsâ#x80;#x99;: Scotland, utopia and traditional song in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart; 10 The problem with â#x80;#x98;traditionalâ#x80;#x99. |
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11 Salsa Celticaâ#x80;#x99;s Great Scottish Latin Adventure â#x80;#x93; an insiderâ#x80;#x99;s viewPart III Home and host; 12 Distant voices, Scottish lives: on song and migration; 13 The globalization of Highland dancing; Part IV The past in the present; 14 Locating identity in the aural aspects of Thomas Percyâ#x80;#x99;s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: a bibliographic perspective; 15 Routes, roles and folk on the edge: Scotlandâ#x80;#x99;s instrumental music through the revival lens; 16 Links with the past in the present-day performance of Scottish fiddle music; or, the historicity of tradition. |
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17 Wynds, vennels and dual carriageways: the changing nature of Scottish music18 Understanding Scotland musically: reflections on place, war and nation; 19 Afterword; References; Index. |
| Summary |
"Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. This volume brings together a range of authors that sets out to explore the increasingly plural and complex notions of Scotland, as performed in and through traditional music. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This collection principally explores this movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that are blurring established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes traditional music today. The volume therefore provides a cohesive set of perspectives on how traditional music performs Scottishness at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
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Folk music |
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Scotland |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
McKerrell, Simon.
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West, Gary.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McKerrell, Simon. Understanding Scotland Musically : Folk, Tradition and Policy. Milton : Taylor and Francis, ©2018 9781138205222 |
| ISBN |
9781315467566 |
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1315467569 |
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9781315467559 (electronic bk.) |
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1315467550 (electronic bk.) |
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9781138205222 |
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