Understanding Scotland Musically : Folk, Tradition and Policy.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of musical examples -- General editor'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 'A sense of who we are': the cultural value of community-based traditional music in Scotland -- 4 The emergence of the 'traditional arts' in Scottish cultural policy -- 5 'Eun Bheag Chanaidh' where the Gaelic arts and non-traditional theatre meet: a song discussion -- 6 Referendum reflections: traditional music and the performance of politics in the campaign for Scottish independence -- Part 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 'It happens in ballads': Scotland, utopia and traditional song in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart -- 10 The problem with 'traditional' -- 11 Salsa Celtica's Great Scottish Latin Adventure - an insider's view -- Part 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 Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: a bibliographic perspective -- 15 Routes, roles and folk on the edge: Scotland'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 -- 17 Wynds, vennels and dual carriageways: the changing nature of Scottish music.

18 Understanding Scotland musically: reflections on place, war and nation -- 19 Afterword -- References -- Index.

Scottish traditional music has been through a revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised public space. Devolution in the UK and a surge of cultural debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland led to a greater study of identities in the UK, set within a wider context of cultural globalization. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This book explores the movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that blur established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes 'traditional' music today.

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