Focus: Scottish Traditional Music

Simon McKerrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317806219
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, Scottish ballads, herding songs, and protest songs as well as instrumental traditions such as fiddle music, country dances, and informal evening pub sessions. Case studies explore the key ideas in understanding Scotland musically by exploring ethnicity, Britishness, belonging, politics, transmission and performance, positioning the cultural identity of Scotland within the United Kingdom.

Visit the author's companion website at http://www.scottishtraditionalmusic.org/ for additional resources.

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ISBN: 978-0-415-74192-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-74193-4 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-81499-5 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315814995

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This book is for Stephanie, Niamh and Kinnon; unsurpassed joy.

Contents

• List of figures
• List of tracks
• Series Foreword by Michael B. Bakan
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• PART I The Social Life of Scottish Traditional Music
  • 1 Introduction
    • Authenticity and Belonging
    • The Sound of Scottish Music
  • 2 The Social Life of Scottish Traditional Music
    • Scottish Traditional Music and the Family
    • Intimate Social Musical Life
    • Organised Solo Performance
    • Organised Social Music
    • Mass-Mediated Music
  • 3 Auld Lang Syne
    • Scottish Musical Beginnings
    • Early Modern Scottish Traditional Music
    • Enlightenment Scotland and Traditional Music
    • Romanticism and Scottishness in Traditional Music
    • Summary
• PART II Scottish Traditional Music: Politics, People and Place
  • 4 The Politics of Scottish Traditional Music
    • Jacobite Song
    • Whigs, Tories and Romantics
    • Marxism, Red Clydeside and the Revival
    • The Folk Revival
    • Protest Song
    • Race, Ethnicity and Whiteness in Scottish Traditional Music
  • 5 The People of Scottish Traditional Music
    • Surveying the Community of Practice
  • 6 The Place of Scottish Traditional Music
    • The...