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  • Voicing Scotland

    Folk, Culture, Nation

    by Gary West ...
    Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland's traditional music and song culture, past and present. West unravels the strings that link many of our contemporary musicians, singers and poets with those of the past, offering up to our ears these voices which deserve to be more loudly heard. What do they say to us in the 21st Century? What is the role of tradition in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia

    Edited by Gary West, Darryl Heard, Nigel Caulkett ...
    A new and updated edition of the classic reference to animal and wildlife anesthesiaZoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia, Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated edition of this comprehensive reference to anesthetic techniques in captive and free-ranging wild species. Featuring 57 species-specific chapters covering animals both common and uncommon, the book includes both the ... Read more

    $206.00 USD

  • Brave New Music

    The Martyn Bennett Story

    by Gary West ...
    Martyn Bennett was an artist ahead of his time. Piper, violinist, composer, producer, DJ – his radical blend of tradition and technology created an audacious new sound that was uniquely his own. Steeped in the folk cultures of Scotland, yet inspired too by deep-rooted traditions from far beyond, his music ignored boundaries and celebrated cultural difference wherever he found it. Although ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Understanding Scotland Musically

    Folk, Tradition and Policy

    Edited by Simon McKerrell, Gary West ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    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. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Weed Was a Flower

    by Gary West ...
    Black schools helped the black man to find himself. He found his identity through the school. This identity was and is the most essential thing for man, race, or nation. With the discovery of identity one can draw analogies about his place or position in the world. Identity was not the objectives of these schools, and one should note that this identity was the result of many years of struggle. It ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Highland Homecomings

    Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

    by Paul Basu ...
    The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Waxing Moon

    The Modern Gaelic Revival

    by Roger Hutchinson ...
    Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1,300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland had fallen tenfold over the previous century. The language itself was commonplace only in the scattered communities of the north-west Highlands and Hebrides.By the early years of the 21st ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

    Edited by Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton ...
    The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Arts and the Nation

    A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

    by Alan Riach, Alexander Moffatt, John Purser ...
    A panorama of ideas about nationality and culture, Arts and the Nation arose from the conviction that Scotland can never be really democratic until it gives the arts the priority of place and attention they demand. This book is a fresh take on subjects new and old, with multifaceted ideas of nationality and culture. Those featured include:William Dunbar, Duncan Ban MacIntyre and Elizabeth Melville ... Read more

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  • Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall

    Cornu-Copia

    by Lea Hagmann ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two different revival movements that aim at reviving Cornwall’s culture but seem to have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Arts of Independence

    by Alexander Moffat ...
    Series Book 13 - Viewpoints
    There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil had been discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out. How have perceptions of Scottish culture been shaped by its role within Britain? What would be different about culture in an Independent Scotland? Why is culture the key to the independence debate? ALEXANDER ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Music

    by Kirsty Gunn ...
    The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death and birth, change and stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge and connect with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD